Re: [ADMIN] size of indexes and tables (more than 1GB)

2005-08-30 Thread jose fuenmayor
i am using postgreSql 8.0.3 i've try vacuum vacuum full the hole database but it takes too long, seems it will never be finished, i've tried vacuum table_name and the table remains nearly the same as isee i my PGDATA directory. is this normal? . is there something i can do ?On 8/25/05, Bruno Wolff

Re: [ADMIN] size of indexes and tables (more than 1GB)

2005-08-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:38:03 -0400, jose fuenmayor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am using postgreSql 8.0.3 i've try vacuum vacuum full the hole database but it takes too long, seems it will never be finished, i've tried vacuum table_name and the table remains nearly the same as isee i my

Re: [ADMIN] size of indexes and tables (more than 1GB)

2005-08-30 Thread jose fuenmayor
i waited like 11 hours and it doesn't finish, where is the FSM setting postgreSQL.conf?On 8/30/05, Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:38:03 -0400,jose fuenmayor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am using postgreSql 8.0.3 i've try vacuum vacuum full the hole database but

Re: [ADMIN] size of indexes and tables (more than 1GB)

2005-08-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:26:16 -0400, jose fuenmayor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i waited like 11 hours and it doesn't finish, where is the FSM setting postgreSQL.conf? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/runtime-config.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-RESOURCE ---(end of

[ADMIN] size of indexes and tables (more than 1GB)

2005-08-25 Thread jose fuenmayor
I read and have seen that when a table has more than 1GB it is divided in several files with the names of inode,inode.1,inode.2,inode.3, etc. I have a table of 1.3 GB (9.618.118 rows,13 fields) it is divided in that way as i see on /PGDATA/base but each file has the same size i mean table inode

Re: [ADMIN] size of indexes and tables (more than 1GB)

2005-08-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:52:35 -0400, jose fuenmayor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The size of the table is 3 times bigger than, for instance Visual Fox Pro dbf's? since is there fisically three times. Have you been vacuuming properly? It is possible you have a lot of dead tuples in the

Re: [ADMIN] size of indexes and tables (more than 1GB)

2005-08-25 Thread Aldor
Hi Chris, If you're running VACUUM often enough, then there's nothing wrong, and nothing to be done. You're simply observing how PostgreSQL handles large tables. Wrong. I have a big table - running VACUUM the first time needs as long as I run it after the VACUUM has finished. There are