Re: [GENERAL] Pg 9.1: Do I need to run vacuum analyze instead vacuum full?

2012-07-24 Thread Anthony Bull
We found the auto vacuum would always kick in during our daily data loads in the mornings and completely bottle neck our system, and in the end had to turn it off and schedule our own vacuum analyze over the weekend each week using crontab. We do a couple of gigs of inserts a week into our postgre

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump not dumping all tables

2012-06-24 Thread Anthony Bull
Out of curiosity, what happens if you dump that database without specifying a schema - do you get all 708 tables? On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Stefan Schwarzer wrote: > Hi there, > > I am pg_dump-ing all tables from schema public on the server > > /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump -U user m

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL disk space reclaiming

2012-05-28 Thread Anthony Bull
space? Thanks for any help people can give! Anthony Bull Software Architect m2Wealth International Ltd. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL reclaiming table space

2012-05-28 Thread Anthony Bull
About 3 hours after the Vacuum full completed, the disk space got returned to the OS - now Windows is reporting it has all that disk back. Must have been waiting for something? Anyway, great news! On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Anthony Bull wrote: > I did not run analyze, only vacuum f

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL reclaiming table space

2012-05-28 Thread Anthony Bull
tables in the db. Will analyze help? I was under the impression that was more for statistics gathering and index optimising? On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Jens Wilke wrote: > On Montag, 28. Mai 2012, Anthony Bull wrote: > > Hi, > > >This did not > > work either - pos

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL reclaiming table space

2012-05-28 Thread Anthony Bull
Greetings, I am having problems reclaiming an excessive amount of disk space used by a database, running on Windows PostgreSQL v8.3 (unfortunately we are stuck with this version at the moment). The database had a 16GB table, that I deleted a lot of data from. After deleting from this table, I ra

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2008-10-03 Thread bull
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