Re: the right time to vacuum database? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: the right time to vacuum database?
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Msg-id 20070606195101.GF11545@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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In response to Re: the right time to vacuum database?  ("Charles.Hou" <ivan.hou@msa.hinet.net>)
Responses Re: the right time to vacuum database?  ("Charles.Hou" <ivan.hou@msa.hinet.net>)
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On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 05:28:10PM -0700, Charles.Hou wrote:
> Client connected: about 100 pc, 1 pc with 1 connection at least, the
> max is 4 connections

So up to 400 connections?  Are they all running transactions?  For
any length of time?

> 194 tables on the database, and some of the tables  always executed
> the update/insert command .

So _some_ tables are getting updated?  (Inserts are not really
relevant to vacuuming here, but they'll surely be relevant to size)

> i also set the autovacuum to enable. today, the database size is
> 497MB. 497-440MB=57MB, 57 MB have been increased in 18  hours.
> what's wrong with my PostgreSql Server?

Maybe nothing.  How much data do you think you're putting in there?
What does VACUUM VERBOSE say, as I asked about -- are you getting a
lot of dead space?

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