| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> | 
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| To: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Cc: | "Chris Hoover" <revoohc(at)gmail(dot)com>, "William Scott Jordan" <wsjordan(at)brownpapertickets(dot)com>, "Jeff Frost" <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com> | 
| Subject: | Re: VACUUM vs. REINDEX | 
| Date: | 2006-07-08 03:24:24 | 
| Message-ID: | 200607072024.25142.jd@commandprompt.com | 
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> William,
>
> You need to increase your fsm settings.  The database is telling you it is
> trying to store 177K+ pages, but you have only provided it with 20K.  Since
> these pages are cheap, I would set your fsm up with at least the following.
>
> max_fsm_pages 500000
> max_fsm_relations 5000
>
> This should provide PostgreSQL with enough space to work.  You still might
> need to run one more vacuum full once you change the setting so that you
> can recover the space that was lost due to your fsm begin to small. 
Yes he will need to run a vacuum full but I actually doubt he needs to 
increase his max_fsm_pages that much, he just needs to vacuum more.
Joshua D. Drake
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