Re: a "huge" table with small rows and culumns

From: Denis Perchine <dyp(at)perchine(dot)com>
To: "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: a "huge" table with small rows and culumns
Date: 2000-12-19 11:35:17
Message-ID: 00121917345403.08280@dyp.perchine.com
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On Tuesday 19 December 2000 17:31, you wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Feng Xue wrote:
> > after I use VACUUM command to clean up the database, the table size
> > shrinked from 25M to 0.5M, which is a BIG IMPROVEMENT!
>
> If this is a production database that is being used by a lot of people,
> you should run the vacuum on a regular basis, like maybe overnight as a
> cron job.

That's really bad idea if you have 7.0.x. There are deadlocks possible. :-(((

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Denis Perchine

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