[GENERAL] Side effects of moving an index to a new tablespace

2012-01-09 Thread Jason Buberel
As per Ondrej's suggestion, our current thinking/planning at this point is to move indices instead of tables. We have lots of them, they are much smaller than the tables, and that will allow us to do the migrations more incrementally. One area where the documentation is not very detailed - What a

Re: [GENERAL] Time to move table to new tablespace

2012-01-09 Thread Jason Buberel
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: > On 7/01/2012 10:52 PM, Jason Buberel wrote: > > I'm considering the migration of an existing large (2.3TB) table to a new > tablespace. The table size, according to the '\dt+' command: > > public | ci

[GENERAL] Time to move table to new tablespace

2012-01-07 Thread Jason Buberel
I'm considering the migration of an existing large (2.3TB) table to a new tablespace. The table size, according to the '\dt+' command: public | city_summary | table | altosresearch | 2345 GB| Are there any considerations - besides the usual disk and network IO constraints - that I need to ta

Re: [GENERAL] Is it ever necessary to vacuum a table that only gets inserts/updates?

2011-11-17 Thread Jason Buberel
Pierce writes: > > On 11/16/11 4:24 PM, Jason Buberel wrote: > >> Just wondering if there is ever a reason to vacuum a very large table > >> (> 1B rows) containing rows that never has rows deleted. > > > no updates either? > > To clarify: in Postgres, an "

[GENERAL] Is it ever necessary to vacuum a table that only gets inserts/updates?

2011-11-16 Thread Jason Buberel
Just wondering if there is ever a reason to vacuum a very large table (> 1B rows) containing rows that never has rows deleted. Under what circumstance would the table benefit from a vacuum? -jason -- Jason L. Buberel CTO, Altos Research http://www.altosresearch.com/ 650.603.0907

Re: [GENERAL] recovery_target_time ignored or recovery always recov ersto end of WAL

2007-07-03 Thread Jason Buberel
LOL. Thats what i get for running configure and make with PG_HOME set to my 8.1.4 install. With that fixed i will start probing my WAL archives now. -jason --- Original Message --- From: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason L. Buberel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 7/2/2007, 1:33:24 PM