On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:51 AM, S H <msq...@live.com> wrote: > I created small table and started doing insertion/deletion/updation on > 2 rows in infinite loop. It started bloating around 844 times, but after it > stopped bloating.. what could be the reason? >
Did autovacuum kick in and clean up the table? Is autovacuum on? Type: show autovacuum; You can watch the dead tuple count using *pgstattuple (an extension which can be installed via "create extension pgstattuple;". Once installed, select * from pgstattuple('name_of_your_table'); *http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/pgstattuple.html > In between i am running manual vacuum analyze ( without full option) > After every iteration? >