Re: [ADMIN] autovacuum

2006-06-15 Thread Robin Iddon
How do I know if autovacuum is reclaiming space or is my max_fsm setting plain wrong. (I understand that autovacuum marks tuples for reuse, but shouldn't pg_total_relation_size take that into account) You can find out if your FSM settings are big enough by running vacuumdb -av (and yes, it n

Re: [ADMIN] database physical storage

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:26:59AM +0530, Praveen Kumar N wrote: > I have observed that the size of data (for example size of > table in a database) stored by database system on physical storage is > more than actual datasize.It seems database is storing data in some > format.For example

[ADMIN] General question regarding sequences (Serial columns)

2006-06-15 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
I am in the process of writing a migration utility to move data from a SQL Server to PostgreSQL. The original schema contains identity fields. When converting the schema, I have 2 option - either make them serial (or bigserisl) columns, with the associated automatic constraint, or declaring the as

Re: [ADMIN] General question regarding sequences (Serial columns)

2006-06-15 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
Thanks. I just looked at the definition and see it is a default value, so I should be safe just pumping the data over. On completion of the import I plan to reseed he sequence generator. -Original Message- From: Juan Miguel Paredes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006

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