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From: matthew@tocr.com
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Mindaugas Riauba <mind@bi.lt>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to avoid database bloat
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 23:38:18 -0400 (EDT)
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> "Mindaugas Riauba" <mind@bi.lt> writes:
>>   And what in vacuum verbose output suggests that vacuum is not done
>> often enough? Current output (table is 100MB already) is below.
>
> The output shows vacuum cleaning up about a third of the table.  Usually
> people like to keep the overhead down to 10% or so ...


He was running with -V 0.5 which should transalate to roughly 50% of the
table being touched before a vacuum is issued.j

Matt



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