Am 13.01.2012 13:08, schrieb Anibal David Acosta:
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> Hi,
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> yesterday I delete about 200 million rows of a table (about 150GB of
> data), after delete completes the autovacuum process start.
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> The autovacuum is running for about 11 hours but no space is released
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> Autovacuum parameters are with default values in postgresql.conf
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> The postgres version is 9.0.3
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> The pg activity reports:
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> select (now()-query_start) as duration, waiting, current_query from
> pg_stat_activity where current_query ilike '%auto%'
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> 10:42:19.829 f "autovacuum: VACUUM ANALYZE
> public.myTable"
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> How can I release the space used by deleted rows? Without block the table.
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> Thanks!
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vacuum does not reclaim space, just marks tuples dead. You need vacuum full.