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

Le 05/04/2010 06:08, Nilesh Govindarajan a écrit :
> 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.
>

You can find the number with a simple query (SELECT oid FROM pg_database
WHERE datname='your database name') or with the oid2name contrib module.

But that's not the real issue. If you have objects of this database in
other tablespaces, "du -sh" on datadir/base/<oid> won't count them. You
should better use this query:

SELECT pg_database_size('your database name')

to get the total size of your database.

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