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Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 11:16:46 +0200
From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>
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To: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
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Subject: Re: VACUUM vs. REINDEX
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Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:28:52PM -0400, Chris Hoover wrote:
>> You need to increase your fsm settings.  The database is telling you it is
>> trying to store 177K+ pages, but you have only provided it with 20K.  Since
>> these pages are cheap, I would set your fsm up with at least the following.
> 
> While we're at it, is there a good reason why we simply aren't upping the FSM
> defaults? It seems like a lot of people are being bitten by it, and adding
> more pages and relations is as you say cheap...

that is already done in -HEAD at the initdb stage:

...
selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 4000/200000
...

Stefan