Re: Autovacuum not vacuuming pg_largeobject

From: Denis Gasparin <denis(at)edistar(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Autovacuum not vacuuming pg_largeobject
Date: 2007-08-30 16:21:02
Message-ID: 46D6EE6E.4010104@edistar.com
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> Yeah, you're wrong. The difference is that plain vacuum does not try
> very hard to reduce the length of a table file --- it just frees up
> space within the file for reuse. vacuum full will actually move things
> from the end of the file to free space nearer the head of the file,
> so that it can shorten the file.
>
> What I suspect the above observations really prove is you don't have
> max_fsm_pages set high enough, and so pg_largeobject was bloating because
> the free space was being forgotten instead of reused.
>
>
I tried to issue the vacuum command on one of my database and i got the
following log messages:

LOG: max_fsm_relations(1000) equals the number of relations checked
HINT: You have at least 1000 relations. Consider increasing the
configuration parameter

I suspect I must increase max_fsm_relations.
The value of max_fsm_pages is 20000 (the default value).
I suspect I must change this to a higher value... but how high should
this value be?

Thank you in advance,
Denis

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