Re: vacuum and 24/7 uptime

From: Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net>
To: Philip Molter <philip(at)datafoundry(dot)net>
Cc: Mark <mark(at)ldssingles(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: vacuum and 24/7 uptime
Date: 2001-07-12 21:34:15
Message-ID: 3B4E17D7.1E94CAB5@selectacast.net
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Philip Molter wrote:
>

> table). We also recreate the indices on the most frequent table every
> 12 hours, since vacuum doesn't clean up after indices (again, it
> appears).
>
Are you sure about that? Since an index grows with each insert or
update they would soon take up the whole disk for any active databases.

I see in my postgres log:
DEBUG: Index ml_pkey: Pages 882; Tuples 174067: Deleted 18. CPU
0.07s/0.62u sec.

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Joseph Shraibman
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