Re: [GENERAL] vacuum, vacuum full and problems releasing disk space

2012-05-16 Thread Horaci Macias
wrote: Horaci Macias wrote: after tuning the autovacuum settings I can now see the tables vaccumed and the number of dead tuples dropping whenever an autovacuum happens, which makes sense. Great. What I don't see though is the size of the tables ever decreasing, but I'm not sure I

Re: [GENERAL] vacuum, vacuum full and problems releasing disk space

2012-05-16 Thread Horaci Macias
much is occupied by live tuples? H On 10/05/12 16:50, Albe Laurenz wrote: Horaci Macias wrote: I'm running postgres 9.1 and having disk space problems. My application captures information 24x7 and stores it into the database. This includes several bytea and can be ~5M entries a day, so

Re: [GENERAL] vacuum, vacuum full and problems releasing disk space

2012-05-10 Thread Horaci Macias
the child table constraints to search all the child tables that could contain data. Guy On May 10, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Horaci Macias wrote: thanks Guy. I had thought about using per-day tables (although I didn't know about child tables) but my problem is that some entries are related and

Re: [GENERAL] vacuum, vacuum full and problems releasing disk space

2012-05-10 Thread Horaci Macias
o the end of day / start of day time. Anyway, worth a thought for sure so thanks. H On 10/05/12 16:42, Guy Helmer wrote: On May 10, 2012, at 4:31 AM, Horaci Macias wrote: Hi everybody, I'm running postgres 9.1 and having disk space problems. My application captures information 24x7 and

Re: [GENERAL] vacuum, vacuum full and problems releasing disk space

2012-05-10 Thread Horaci Macias
till be a problem even if last_autovacuum shows autovacuum ran? thanks, H On 10/05/12 16:50, Albe Laurenz wrote: Horaci Macias wrote: I'm running postgres 9.1 and having disk space problems. My application captures information 24x7 and stores it into the database. This includes several byte

[GENERAL] vacuum, vacuum full and problems releasing disk space

2012-05-10 Thread Horaci Macias
Hi everybody, I'm running postgres 9.1 and having disk space problems. My application captures information 24x7 and stores it into the database. This includes several bytea and can be ~5M entries a day, so the size can be an issue after several days. My application also cleans up entries older