Hi all -

I'm doing some perf testing and need huge amounts of data. So I have a program that is adding data to a few tables ranging from 500,000 to 15M rows. The program is just a simply C# program that blasts data into the DB, but after about 3M rows or so I get an errror:

ERROR:  could not extend relation 1663/41130/41177: No space left on device
HINT:  Check free disk space.

If I do a full VACUUM on the table being inserted into, the error goes away but it comes back very quickly. Obviously, I wouldn't want this happening in a production environment.

I've noticed some auto-vacuum settings as well (I just checked the box and left all the defaults) but that doesn't seem to help too much. What's the recommended setup in a production environment for tables where tons of data will be inserted?

It seems to me there's some sort of "max table size" before you have to allocate more space on the disk, however I can't seem to find where these settings are and how to allow millions of rows to be inserted into a table without having to vacuum every few million rows..

Mike



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