Re: number of page slots needed (1576544) exceeds max_fsm_pages (204800)] - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Reid Thompson
Subject Re: number of page slots needed (1576544) exceeds max_fsm_pages (204800)]
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Msg-id 20100118194952.GH6399@ateb.com
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In response to Re: number of page slots needed (1576544) exceeds max_fsm_pages (204800)]  (Vick Khera <vivek@khera.org>)
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On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:43:11PM -0500, Vick Khera wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@ateb.com> wrote:
> > Does this max_fsm_pages value seem OK for a 46GB database?
> > I've clustered all the tables that seemed to be exhibiting large amounts
> > of bloat.
>
>
> One more thing you may wish to consider is running re-index on your
> tables.  I found that a lot of pages with empty space were compacted
> and the number of fsm entries went down significantly when I did this
> last week.  For me this was more important than running cluster to
> pack the data tables themselves.

It was my belief that cluster would re-build the indexes as part of the
cluster operation.  Is that belief incorrect?

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