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From Mario Behring
Subject Re: Droping indexes
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Msg-id 40081.83800.qm@web30012.mail.mud.yahoo.com
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In response to Droping indexes  (Mario Behring <mariobehring@yahoo.com>)
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Hi Alvaro,

Thank you for your advise..............I was thinking about doing exactly that, I wasn't sure on how to do it though, meaning, considering the info below, how should I use the CREATE INDEX command to create these indexes??

opennms=# \d events
                        Tabela "public.events"
         Colunm          |            Type             | Modifyers
-------------------------+-----------------------------+---------------
 eventid                 | integer                     | not null
 eventuei                | character varying(256)      | not null
 nodeid                  | integer                     |
 eventtime               | timestamp without time zone | not null
 eventhost               | character varying(256)      |
 eventsource             | character varying(128)      | not null
 ipaddr                  | character varying(16)       |
 eventdpname             | character varying(12)       | not null
 eventsnmphost           | character varying(256)      |
 serviceid               | integer                     |
 eventsnmp               | character varying(256)      |
 eventparms              | text                        |
 eventcreatetime         | timestamp without time zone | not null
 eventdescr              | character varying(4000)     |
 eventloggroup           | character varying(32)       |
 eventlogmsg             | character varying(256)      |
 eventseverity           | integer                     | not null
 eventpathoutage         | character varying(1024)     |
 eventcorrelation        | character varying(1024)     |
 eventsuppressedcount    | integer                     |
 eventoperinstruct       | character varying(1024)     |
 eventautoaction         | character varying(256)      |
 eventoperaction         | character varying(256)      |
 eventoperactionmenutext | character varying(64)       |
 eventnotification       | character varying(128)      |
 eventtticket            | character varying(128)      |
 eventtticketstate       | integer                     |
 eventforward            | character varying(256)      |
 eventmouseovertext      | character varying(64)       |
 eventlog                | character(1)                | not null
 eventdisplay            | character(1)                | not null
 eventackuser            | character varying(256)      |
 ndices:ktime            | timestamp without time zone |
    "pk_eventid"primary key, btree (eventid)
    "events_acktime_idx" btree (eventacktime)
    "events_ackuser_idx" btree (eventackuser)
    "events_display_idx" btree (eventdisplay)
    "events_ipaddr_idx" btree (ipaddr)
    "events_log_idx" btree (eventlog)
    "events_nodeid_idx" btree (nodeid)
    "events_serviceid_idx" btree (serviceid)
    "events_severity_idx" btree (eventseverity)
    "events_time_idx" btree (eventtime)
    "events_uei_idx" btree (eventuei)
Restrictions of foreing key:
    "fk_nodeid6" FOREIGN KEY (nodeid) REFERENCES node(nodeid) ON DELETE CASCADE


Thank you.

Best regards,

Mario Behring


----- Original Message ----
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Mario Behring <mariobehring@yahoo.com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tv@fuzzy.cz>; pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 1:08:55 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] Droping indexes

Mario Behring wrote:
> Hi Tomas,
>
> Thank you.
>
> Please help me here.....I am not a database guy...........how do I use this CLUSTER command and what does it do? Please keep in mind that I do not have disk space left.........

If the disk is full you cannot use CLUSTER anyway.  Suggestion: make a
note of the indexes that exist.  Drop them.  Do a VACUUM FULL of the
table.  Create the indexes again.

After that's done:

1. read the CLUSTER documentation, as it may help you in the future

2. consider restructuring the table so that redundant information is
kept only on one place (for example, the eventackuser could probably be
put on a separate table and on this one store just an integer ID).  This
will make the table and the index on that column a lot smaller.

3. add more disks to your installation

4. research a more effective VACUUM policy

--
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support



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