> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Trouble is, as the rows in the tables get deleted/inserted/updated > > (the frequency being a couple thousand rows per minute), the database > > is growing out of proportion in size. After about a week, I have > > to redump the db by hand so as to get query times back to sensible > > figures. A transaction that takes ~50 seconds before the redump will > > then complete in under 5 seconds (the corresponding data/base/ dir having > > shrunk from ~2 GB to ~0.6GB). > > > > A nightly VACCUM ANALYZE is no use. > > > > A VACUUM FULL is no use. > > > > A VACUUM FULL followed by REINDEX is no use. > > Is the space being taken up by stats_min, this index, some other object?
relname | relkind | relpages | reltuples ---------------------------------+---------+----------+------------- stats_hr | r | 61221 | 3.01881e+06 stats_hr_pkey | i | 26414 | 3.02239e+06 stats_min_pkey | i | 20849 | 953635 stats_hr_start | i | 17218 | 3.02142e+06 stats_min_start | i | 15284 | 949788 stats_min | r | 10885 | 948792 authinfo_pkey | i | 1630 | 1342 authinfo | r | 1004 | 1342 contract_ips | r | 865 | 565 contract_ips_pkey | i | 605 | 565 > What does VACUUM FULL VERBOSE stats_min; give you? Sorry, I can't run a VACUUM FULL at this time. We're in production use. -- Tomas Szepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]