On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Jeff Janes <jeff.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > At that point the ctid can be re-used, but only if someone actually > wants a "new" ctid on that page. An ordinary vacuum will not close up > the gaps on un-used ctids. Only a vaccum full will do that.
There are a couple of ways to do that except the vacuum full that locks the table exclusively. 1. pg_reorg can re-organize tables on a postgres database without locks. However it requires twice the space of the table size and might lead to IO spikes. 2. pgcompactor a tables and indexes bloat reducing tool, without locking also. It is slower than pg_reorg but does its job more gently. > > The space used by these ctid gaps is not large, and as the OP > discovered, his wasted space was in fact happening outside of the > database itself. > > Cheers, > > Jeff > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Sergey Konoplev a database and software architect http://www.linkedin.com/in/grayhemp Jabber: gray...@gmail.com Skype: gray-hemp Phone: +14158679984 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
