Re: [GENERAL][ADMIN][HACKERS]data fragmentation

2003-12-24 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, An quicker option would be to use rsync (on a stopped database of course). You can rsync to a new directory (off the filesystem) and then reformat the data filesystem and move it back. J Somasekhar Bangalore wrote: Hi, I too had the same problem; There was one query which used to ta

Re: [GENERAL][ADMIN][HACKERS]data fragmentation

2003-12-16 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:29:20PM +, Jaime Casanova wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:59:23AM +0530, Somasekhar Bangalore wrote: > >>I too had the same problem; There was one query which used to take a > >>very long time. What I did was, I took a backup of the whole database. > >>Reinstal

Re: [GENERAL][ADMIN][HACKERS]data fragmentation

2003-12-16 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:59:23AM +0530, Somasekhar Bangalore wrote: > Hi, > > I too had the same problem; There was one query which used to take a > very long time. What I did was, I took a backup of the whole database. > Reinstalled postgres on a different mount point and restored the data > b