From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Michal Taborsky <michal.taborsky@mall.cz>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Cleaning bloated pg_attribute
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:07:17 +0100
Message-ID: <42A96655.3090202@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42A957E9.8040909@mall.cz>
References: <42A957E9.8040909@mall.cz>
Michal Taborsky wrote:
> I managed, by extensive usage of temporary tables, to totally bloat
> pg_attribute. It currently has about 40000 pages with just 3000 tuples.
> The only thing I could think of is VACUUM FULL, but from my former
> experience I guess it'll take maybe over an hour, effectively rendering
> the server unusable, because of the exclusive lock.
You can vacuum full a single table - shouldn't take an hour for just the
one table. Unless your disk I/O is *constantly* running flat-out.
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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