> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Peter Childs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, 30 May 2003, Tomas Szepe wrote: > >> 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. > > > Would more regular vacuum help. I think a vaccum every hour may do > > the job. > > Also note that no amount of vacuuming will save you if the FSM is not > large enough to keep track of all the free space. The default FSM > settings, like all the other default settings in Postgres, are set up > for a small installation. You'd probably need to raise them by at least > a factor of 10 for this installation.
Thanks, I'll try to tweak those settings and will let the list know how things went. -- Tomas Szepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])