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From: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: Naomi Walker <nwalker@mhs.mphasis.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Free Space after vacuuming
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:47:18 -0500
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"Naomi Walker" <nwalker@mhs.mphasis.com> wrote:
 
> How does one tell how much space is available (probably by table),
> after a "vacuum verbose analyze" has completed.
 
Personally, I mostly pay attention to these lines:
 
NNNNN pages contain useful free space.
 
(where NNNNN is a large number).
 
We grep for large numbers in the file where we've redirected the
nightly VACUUM ANALYZE VERBOSE output, and if we find something we
email our DBA team.
 
-Kevin



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