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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:29:14 +0200
From: Mario Weilguni <mweilguni@sime.com>
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To: Andreas Hartmann <andreas@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Less rows -> better performance?
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Andreas Hartmann schrieb:
> Mario Weilguni schrieb:
>> Andreas Hartmann schrieb:
>
> […]
>
>>> I just verified that the autovacuum property is enabled.
>
> […]
>
>> Did you have:
>> stats_start_collector = on
>> stats_block_level = on
>> stats_row_level = on
>>
>> Otherwise autovacuum won't run IMO.
>
> Thanks for the hint! The section looks like this:
>
> stats_start_collector = on
> #stats_command_string = off
> #stats_block_level = off
> stats_row_level = on
> #stats_reset_on_server_start = off
>
>
> I'll check the logs if the vacuum really runs - as soon as I find them :)
>
> -- Andreas
You might want to use these entries in your config:
redirect_stderr = on
log_directory = 'pg_log'
log_filename = 'postgresql-%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S.log'
log_rotation_age = 1d

Fit those to your needs, then you will find log entries in $PGDATA/pg_log/

And BTW, I was wrong, you just need to have stats_row_level=On, 
stats_block_level doesn't matter. But in fact it's simple, if you don't 
have 24x7 requirements type VACUUM FULL ANALYZE; and check if your DB 
becomes smaller, I really doubt you can have that much indizes that 27MB 
dumps might use 2.3 GB on-disk.

You can check this too:
select relname, relpages, reltuples, relkind
  from pg_class
where relkind in ('r', 'i')
order by relpages desc limit 20;

Will give you the top-20 tables and their sizes, 1 page is typically 
8KB, so you can cross-check if relpages/reltuples is completly off, this 
is a good indicator for table/index bloat.

Regards,
Mario