Re: [GENERAL] How to free disk space

2008-10-22 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:46 AM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what's the version you're running ? you shouldn't run into that problem too > often with 8.3 I'm running 8.3.3 soon to be 8.3.4 or .5 if there's a bug fix due out. There's only so much the autovacuum daemon can do w

Re: [GENERAL] How to free disk space

2008-10-22 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
what's the version you're running ? you shouldn't run into that problem too often with 8.3 just like guys said here, regular vacuum, and reindex once in a while.

Re: [GENERAL] How to free disk space

2008-10-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 21 October 2008 09:00:30 postgres Emanuel CALVO FRANCO wrote: >> After run VACUUM, you must run REINDEXDB to decrease indexes. >> > > This is probably overkill, as you won't need to do this for a lot of tables in

Re: [GENERAL] How to free disk space

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Treat
On Tuesday 21 October 2008 09:00:30 postgres Emanuel CALVO FRANCO wrote: > After run VACUUM, you must run REINDEXDB to decrease indexes. > This is probably overkill, as you won't need to do this for a lot of tables in your database, and the locking issues are probably unhelpful. > You can pg_re

Re: [GENERAL] How to free disk space

2008-10-21 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 21/10/2008 11:59, Ruben Blanco wrote: > My database is growing fast taking too much disk space. How can I free > disk space without performing a VACCUM FULL? It locks the database for > several hours, and that is not a solution. You shouldn't need to do VACUUM FULL - plain VACUUM should do the

Re: [GENERAL] How to free disk space

2008-10-21 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 11:59 +0100, Ruben Blanco wrote: > My database is growing fast taking too much disk space. Are you running regular vacuum? -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE devrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org signature.asc Des

Re: [GENERAL] How to free disk space

2008-10-21 Thread postgres Emanuel CALVO FRANCO
After run VACUUM, you must run REINDEXDB to decrease indexes. You can pg_resetxlog too, but you need restart server to do that. 2008/10/21 Ruben Blanco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi: > > My database is growing fast taking too much disk space. How can I free disk > space without performing a VACCUM FU

[GENERAL] How to free disk space

2008-10-21 Thread Ruben Blanco
Hi: My database is growing fast taking too much disk space. How can I free disk space without performing a VACCUM FULL? It locks the database for several hours, and that is not a solution. I guess a backup-restore would do the work but, isn't there a better way to do this without shutting down po