Re: [GENERAL] Index space growing even after cleanup via autovacuum in Postgres 9.2

2014-01-16 Thread Francisco Olarte
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Tirthankar Barari wrote: > My tables are: > > table test_metric ( > id varchar(255) not null, // just auto generated uuid from app > timestamp timestamp not null, > version int4, > entity_id varchar(255) not null, > primary k

Re: [GENERAL] Index space growing even after cleanup via autovacuum in Postgres 9.2

2014-01-15 Thread Tirthankar Barari
On 01/13/2014 01:38 PM, Francisco Olarte wrote: Hi: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Tirthankar Barari wrote: On 01/10/2014 07:06 AM, Francisco Olarte wrote: Not related to your vacuum problem, but if your pattern is something like deleting everything inserted 15 days ago you may want to thin

Re: [GENERAL] Index space growing even after cleanup via autovacuum in Postgres 9.2

2014-01-13 Thread Tirthankar Barari
On 01/10/2014 07:06 AM, Francisco Olarte wrote: Hi: On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Tirthankar Barari wrote: We have a table where we insert about 10 million rows everyday. We keep 14 day's worth of entries (i.e. 140 mil). A scheduled task wakes up every day and deletes all entries past the 14

Re: [GENERAL] Index space growing even after cleanup via autovacuum in Postgres 9.2

2014-01-13 Thread Francisco Olarte
Hi: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Tirthankar Barari wrote: > On 01/10/2014 07:06 AM, Francisco Olarte wrote: >> Not related to your vacuum problem, but if your pattern is something >> like deleting everything inserted 15 days ago you may want to think of >> using partitioning or simple inherit

Re: [GENERAL] Index space growing even after cleanup via autovacuum in Postgres 9.2

2014-01-11 Thread Bill Moran
On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:06:21 +0100 Francisco Olarte wrote: > Hi: > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Tirthankar Barari wrote: > > We have a table where we insert about 10 million rows everyday. We keep 14 > > day's worth of entries (i.e. 140 mil). A scheduled task wakes up every day > > and del

Re: [GENERAL] Index space growing even after cleanup via autovacuum in Postgres 9.2

2014-01-10 Thread Francisco Olarte
Hi: On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Tirthankar Barari wrote: > We have a table where we insert about 10 million rows everyday. We keep 14 > day's worth of entries (i.e. 140 mil). A scheduled task wakes up every day > and deletes all entries past the 14 day window (i.e. deletes entries from > the

Re: [GENERAL] Index space growing even after cleanup via autovacuum in Postgres 9.2

2014-01-09 Thread Tom Lane
Tirthankar Barari writes: > However, we are noticing that after autovacuum, our disk space > consumption is still increasing and the increase is in the index size > (by querying pg_total_relation_size("mytable") and > pg_indexes_size("mytable")). > In Postgres 9.2.2, doesn't autovacuum cleanup