Re: 3-days-long vacuum of 20GB table - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: 3-days-long vacuum of 20GB table
Date
Msg-id 480989B7.3050806@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: 3-days-long vacuum of 20GB table  ("Jeffrey Baker" <jwbaker@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-performance
Jeffrey Baker wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Jeffrey Baker <jwbaker@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  # show maintenance_work_mem ;
>>   maintenance_work_mem
>>  ----------------------
>>   16384
>
> That appears to be the default.  I will try increasing this.  Can I
> increase it globally from a single backend, so that all other backends
> pick up the change, or do I have to restart the instance?

You can change it in the config file, and send postmaster the HUP
signal, which tells all backends to reload the file. "killall -HUP
postmaster" or similar.

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   Heikki Linnakangas
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