Re: VACUUM vs. REINDEX

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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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