Re: On-disk size of db increased after restore - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: On-disk size of db increased after restore
Date
Msg-id 26270.1283448127@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: On-disk size of db increased after restore  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: On-disk size of db increased after restore  (Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org>)
List pgsql-general
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Excerpts from Devrim GÜNDÜZ's message of mié sep 01 17:39:55 -0400 2010:
>> On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 17:32 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> But are you sure there aren't some fillfactor tweaks in there too?
>>
>> I'm sure. fillfactor related changes are on the radar, but I did not
>> commit them yet...

> Maybe you're on one of these versions on which, if you tweaked the
> autovacuum settings, the fillfactor magically got moved to some other
> value.

Oh, bingo, that could be it.  IIRC that bug actually caused fillfactor
to effectively become *zero*.  Devrim, have you identified yet which
tables have the bloat?  Are they the ones with tweaked autovacuum
parameters?

            regards, tom lane

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