Re: [PERFORM] Auto Vacuum Problem

2007-01-24 Thread Heiko W.Rupp
Hi, How do I make the physical size of the DB smaller without doing a full vacuum. This might turn out to be counterproductive, as subsequent inserts and updates will increase the size of the physical database again, which might be expensive depending on the underlying OS. -- Heiko W.Rup

Re: [PERFORM] Auto Vacuum Problem

2007-01-24 Thread Richard Huxton
Gauri Kanekar wrote: Hi List, When auto vacuum is over the dead tuple are seems to get reduced, but physical size of database do not decreases. It won't necessarily. An ordinary vacuum just keeps track of old rows that can be cleared and re-used. A "vacuum full" is needed to compact the tabl

[PERFORM] Auto Vacuum Problem

2007-01-24 Thread Gauri Kanekar
Hi List, When auto vacuum is over the dead tuple are seems to get reduced, but physical size of database do not decreases. We are using Postgres 8.1.3 and this are the auto vacuum settings. autovacuum = on # enable autovacuum subprocess? autovacuum_naptime = 900#