Re: postgres bogged down beyond tolerance - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: postgres bogged down beyond tolerance
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Msg-id dcc563d10711141346u2037c75dnbb389ef08a8622b9@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: postgres bogged down beyond tolerance  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
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On Nov 14, 2007 3:33 PM, Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at  3:16 PM, in message
> <dcc563d10711141316u53338170l5d31d7723c8dc30b@mail.gmail.com>, "Scott Marlowe"
> <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 14, 2007 2:26 PM, Tena Sakai <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> >>  INFO:  vacuuming "public.allele"
> >>  INFO:  "allele": found 2518282 removable, 1257262 nonremovable row versions
> >> in 31511 pages
>
> >>  Total free space (including removable row versions) is 161940948 bytes.
>
> > It looks to me like your tables were bloated.  After running vacuum
> > full your cron should run faster now.
>
> Isn't it usually a good idea to REINDEX after using VACUUM FULL to
> recover from this level of bloat?

Depends on your indexes.  These didn't look bloated to me, but that
wasn't the whole output of vacuum full either.  Yes, reindex is a good
idea after a vacuum full though.

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