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From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>,
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Subject: Re: significant vacuum issues - looking for
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>>> Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org> 08/27/07 4:00 PM >>>=20
> > > They're running  version 8.1.4
>=20
> 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.
=20
He wanted to upgrade to 8.2.4.  CREATE TABLE AS won't get him there.
=20
> > > They're running  version 8.1.4 on 4-way dell boxes=20
> > > with 4Gig of memory on each box attached to RAID-10 disk arrays.=20
>=20
> 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
=20
What other details were you looking for?
=20
-Kevin
=20