Re: Table Bloat still there after the Vacuum

2010/4/26 Cédric Villemain <cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> 2010/4/26 akp geek <akpgeek(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> Hi All -
>>                   I have a table bloated with following details
>> rows:29431 pages:516039 shouldbe:534 (966.4X) wasted size:4223016960 (3 GB)
>> *
>
> I think this info come from check_postgres nagios script.
> As said in the doc, this info is not 100% sure : it depend on the last
> analyze *and* the type the columns *and* the distribution of data in
> those columns.
> I suggest you to check the pg_stats.avg_width relative to this table.
>
> And, vacuum verbose information is good for diagnostics...

and the verbose said there is actually a problem :-)

check long running transaction, idle in connection, ... they prevent
the vacuum things

>
>>                   I did  a vacuum on the database and also I did vacuumdb
>> full on the table. Still there is no change. Can you please suggest if there
>> is any other operation that can be done to take care of the issue
>> Thanks for the help
>>
>> Regards
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> Cédric Villemain
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