Re: database size growing continously

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Peter Meszaros <pme(at)prolan(dot)hu> wrote:
> Increasing max_fsm_pages can be also helpful, but I've read that
> 'vacuum verbose ...' will issue warnings if max_fsm_pages is too small.
> I've never seen such messag, this command is either run and finish or
> goes to an endless loop as it was written in my initial e-mail.

I don't think it goes into an endless loop. I think it runs for a
really long time because your database is bloated, in need of
vacuuming, and probably has blown out the free space map. But since
you haven't let it run to completion you haven't seem the message.

...Robert