Re: Interpreting vacuum verbosity

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jeff Boes <jboes(at)nexcerpt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Interpreting vacuum verbosity
Date: 2004-05-08 00:37:26
Message-ID: 19791.1083976646@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jeff Boes <jboes(at)nexcerpt(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> INFO: free space map: 280 relations, 520 pages stored; 4720 total pages needed
>> DETAIL: Allocated FSM size: 1000 relations + 20000 pages = 178 kB shared memory.

> And I would assume that if I have three databases defined on my server,
> I should run this for all three and sum the results?

No, the quoted results are cluster-wide.

It is a good idea to vacuum all three databases and then look at the
final results, just to make sure you have reasonably up-to-date info
about every table. But you don't need to sum anything.

regards, tom lane

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