Re: vacuum vs pg_repack for clearing bloat?

From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: vacuum vs pg_repack for clearing bloat?
Date: 2014-01-16 02:09:08
Message-ID: 20140116020908.GG22105@crankycanuck.ca
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 05:37:27PM -0800, Lists wrote:
> it's clearing out the cruft that results from creating temp tables,
> loading a bunch of data, then dropping the table, either explicitly
> or when the connection is terminated. This causes PG disk usage to
> climb without causing any change in pg_dump output.

Oh. You need to up your autovacuum settings for the system catalog
tables. I built a system that did this sort of thing. If your
autovacuum settings are correct, this will stabilize.

A

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