From: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
To: Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org>
Cc: Kevin Kempter <kevin@kevinkempterllc.com>
Cc: Pgsql performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: significant vacuum issues - looking for suggestions
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:56:33 -0500
Message-ID: <46D30240.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070827210041.GN54309@nasby.net>
References: <200708241357.23629.kevin@kevinkempterllc.com>
<20070824164144.93ce05bf.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
<20070827210041.GN54309@nasby.net>
>>> Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org> 08/27/07 4:00 PM >>>
> > > They're running version 8.1.4
>
> As for your pg_dump idea... why not just do a CREATE TABLE AS SELECT *
> FROM bloated_table? That would likely be much faster than messing around
> with pg_dump.
He wanted to upgrade to 8.2.4. CREATE TABLE AS won't get him there.
> > > They're running version 8.1.4 on 4-way dell boxes
> > > with 4Gig of memory on each box attached to RAID-10 disk arrays.
>
> What kind of disk hardware is this running on? A good raid 10 array with
> write caching should be able to handle a 200G database fairly well
What other details were you looking for?
-Kevin
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