Re: lots of updates on small table

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Alison Winters <alison(at)mirrabooka(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: lots of updates on small table
Date: 2005-07-15 00:37:30
Message-ID: 20050715003729.GB23728@alvh.no-ip.org
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On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:28:24PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:42:12AM +1000, Alison Winters wrote:
>

> > INFO: Pages 1221: Changed 3, reaped 256, Empty 0, New 0; Tup 108137: Vac 4176, Keep/VTL 108133/108133, UnUsed 19, MinLen 84, MaxLen 84; Re-using: Free/Avail. Space 445176/371836; EndEmpty/Avail. Pages 0/256.
>
> Hmm, so it seems your hourly vacuum is enough. I think the bloat theory
> can be trashed. Unless I'm reading this output wrong; I don't remember
> the details of this vacuum output.

Ok, so I was _very_ wrong :-) Sorry.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]alvh.no-ip.org>)
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