Re: Execute VACUUM FULL when DB touches a specific size ?

From: Nilesh Govindarajan <lists(at)itech7(dot)com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Execute VACUUM FULL when DB touches a specific size ?
Date: 2010-04-05 04:08:45
Message-ID: 4BB9624D.7010600@itech7.com
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On 04/05/10 08:54, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan<lists(at)itech7(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wish to execute VACUUM FULL when DB touches a specific size. How to do it
>> ?
>>
>> I'm aware about the caveats of VACUUM FULL.
>>
>
> Write a bash script that cds to the data dir and runs du -s, grabs the
> value, and if it's over a certain size then run vacuum full.

That's what I was thinking to do, but how do I distinguish between the
databases ? The datadir/base seems have directories whose names are numbers.

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