Re: How do I know my table is bloated? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Rodrigo Barboza
Subject Re: How do I know my table is bloated?
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In response to Re: How do I know my table is bloated?  (Igor Neyman <ineyman@perceptron.com>)
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I have some tables that I do a lot of updates, deletes and inserts.
So I am worried that my cluster can grow up to a huge size...
The best option would be to create a scheduled process to check if it is bloated and if so, reindex?


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Igor Neyman <ineyman@perceptron.com> wrote:


From: Rodrigo Barboza [mailto:rodrigombufrj@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 11:10 AM
To: Igor Neyman
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] How do I know my table is bloated?

Well, so I need to do reindex frequentely in database? Is that right?
Or should I use cluster, as David said?
How frequently should I do this operation?

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Not necessarily.
If there is no table or index bloat, which you should be able to check first, - why bother?

Normally autovacuum does pretty good job even with default configuration parameters.
If not, you could start with adjusting autovacuum parameters.
And reindex only as a last resort, when your index size grows "uncontrollably".

Igor Neyman

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