Re: [GENERAL] diskspace usage recovered on db rebuild

2005-04-04 Thread David Link
Thank you Scott and Lonni for your replies ... On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 11:21, David Link wrote: I have a question regarding filesystem disk space usage. We have a production database containing 5 years of sales data. Linux 2.6.5; Postgresq 7.4.7. VACUUM ANALZYE the entire database everynight (abou

Re: [GENERAL] diskspace usage recovered on db rebuild

2005-04-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 11:21, David Link wrote: > Greetings worthymen. > > I have a question regarding filesystem disk space usage. > > We have a production database containing 5 years of sales data. > Linux 2.6.5; Postgresq 7.4.7. VACUUM ANALZYE the entire database > everynight (about 40min).

Re: [GENERAL] diskspace usage recovered on db rebuild

2005-04-01 Thread Lonni J Friedman
On Apr 1, 2005 9:21 AM, David Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings worthymen. > > I have a question regarding filesystem disk space usage. > > We have a production database containing 5 years of sales data. > Linux 2.6.5; Postgresq 7.4.7. VACUUM ANALZYE the entire database > everynight (a

[GENERAL] diskspace usage recovered on db rebuild

2005-04-01 Thread David Link
Greetings worthymen. I have a question regarding filesystem disk space usage. We have a production database containing 5 years of sales data. Linux 2.6.5; Postgresq 7.4.7. VACUUM ANALZYE the entire database everynight (about 40min). It's size, @SUM(pg_class.relpages) * 8192K, is ... About 66 G

Re: [GENERAL] Diskspace

2004-12-20 Thread Tom Lane
Jeff MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > well, i did a "delete from email_log" and then a vacuum and the files > are still lingering around... TRUNCATE would be better. A VACUUM FULL would shrink the tables all right, but probably not do much for the indexes. regards,

Re: [GENERAL] Diskspace

2004-12-20 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
VACUUM or VACUUM FULL. Only the second actually reclaims diskspace... On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 03:21:51PM -0400, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > well, i did a "delete from email_log" and then a vacuum and the files > are still lingering around... > > still huge. the postmaster did die due to a diskspace i

Re: [GENERAL] Diskspace

2004-12-20 Thread Jeff MacDonald
well, i did a "delete from email_log" and then a vacuum and the files are still lingering around... still huge. the postmaster did die due to a diskspace issue, so i wonder if it's still just keeping a wierd lock on those files or something.. idea's ? On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:01:32 -0300, Alvaro H

Re: [GENERAL] Diskspace

2004-12-20 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:57:35AM -0400, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > # select relname,relfilenode,relpages from pg_class where relfilenode > = 13312279; > relname | relfilenode | relpages > ---+-+-- > email_log |13312279 |36821 > > It just so happens that em

Re: [GENERAL] Diskspace

2004-12-20 Thread Jeff MacDonald
pg_class tells me select relname,relfilenode,relpages from pg_class where relfilenode = 13312283; relname | relfilenode | relpages ---+-+-- pg_toast_13312279 |13312283 | 367639 So now I guess I have to find out what 13312279 is.. Ah HA !

Re: [GENERAL] Diskspace

2004-12-20 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:48:57AM -0400, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > I'm using 7.3.4 And what about pg_class? -- Alvaro Herrera (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) "Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of ind

Re: [GENERAL] Diskspace

2004-12-20 Thread Jeff MacDonald
I'm using 7.3.4 Jeff. On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:48:18 -0300, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:39:15AM -0400, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > > Hi, > > > select * from pg_statio_user_tables where relid = 13312283; > > See the pg_class table, using the relfilenode col

Re: [GENERAL] Diskspace

2004-12-20 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:39:15AM -0400, Jeff MacDonald wrote: Hi, > select * from pg_statio_user_tables where relid = 13312283; See the pg_class table, using the relfilenode column. > So I guess my question is, how do i find out what 13312283.* are, are > they safe to delete ? Probably none.

Re: [GENERAL] Diskspace

2004-12-20 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Hi, We after some more reading I learned that this huge file is my TOAST table.. Is there a way to schrink that down ? Thanks. Jeff. On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:39:15 -0400, Jeff MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a database that is about 3.5 gigs big. And I have a pretty > ser

[GENERAL] Diskspace

2004-12-20 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Hi, I have a database that is about 3.5 gigs big. And I have a pretty serious hunch that there isn't that much data. I did a "du -s *|sort -n " in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/9039913 And got a list that ends with these entries. 55648 18070582 137296 13312252 294736 13312279 845648 13312283.