Re: significant vacuum issues - looking for suggestions

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com>, "Decibel!" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
Cc: "Kevin Kempter" <kevin(at)kevinkempterllc(dot)com>, "Pgsql performance" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: significant vacuum issues - looking for suggestions
Date: 2007-08-27 21:56:33
Message-ID: 46D30240.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov
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>>> Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> 08/27/07 4:00 PM >>>
> > > They're running version 8.1.4
>
> As for your pg_dump idea... why not just do a CREATE TABLE AS SELECT *
> FROM bloated_table? That would likely be much faster than messing around
> with pg_dump.

He wanted to upgrade to 8.2.4. CREATE TABLE AS won't get him there.

> > > They're running version 8.1.4 on 4-way dell boxes
> > > with 4Gig of memory on each box attached to RAID-10 disk arrays.
>
> What kind of disk hardware is this running on? A good raid 10 array with
> write caching should be able to handle a 200G database fairly well

What other details were you looking for?

-Kevin

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