Re: database size grows (even after vacuum (full and analyze))....

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Joao Miguel Ferreira <jmf(at)estg(dot)ipvc(dot)pt>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: database size grows (even after vacuum (full and analyze))....
Date: 2006-05-03 14:45:32
Message-ID: 20060503144532.GC3774@wolff.to
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On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:02:18 +0100,
Joao Miguel Ferreira <jmf(at)estg(dot)ipvc(dot)pt> wrote:
>
> My database gets about 30 INSERTs per minute, about 60 UPDATEs per
> minute and about 30 DELETEs per minute in a way that line counts tend to
> stabilize. The test is done in such a way that I can asure a constant
> average rate of INSERTs and the same average rate of DELETEs (after a
> certain life time for each record).
>
> Dispite this, the file system size still grows (at about 500KB in about
> 1000 minutes).

How often are you vacuuming the table?

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