Re: reducing postgresql disk space

My PostgreSQL version is 8.1.11.

My log entries are on filesytem and I write these logs to db from unix
stream.
Another interesting situation is that while my logs on filesystem contains
about 5-6 GB,
db directory (/base/OID) contains 40 GB. Is that normal ?

I implement your suggestions by using shell scripts ( when the disk filled
up I delete it from db etc. )

Steve Crawford wrote:
>
> On 05/26/2010 07:50 AM, paladine wrote:
>> It is default value ( #checkpoint_segments = 3 # in logfile segments,
>> min
>> 1, 16MB each )
>> Many of my database configurations are default values. (plain TOAST etc)
>> my database is a log database so, some tables of db grow everytime.
>> My ' /base ' directory contains a lot of compressed object (1GB size)
>> These are maybe normal operations but I don't understand that
>> although I delete many rows from my db and regularly vacuum , reindexing
>> operations,
>> how doesn't postgresql give back that deleted areas for reusing.
>>
> What is your PostgreSQL version? In older versions, you needed to set
> the free space map high enough to manage the space that vacuum
> identified as available. If that isn't high enough, vacuum won't be able
> to fully do its job.
>
> Also, if you are doing a typical form of logging where you delete
> entries older than some set age, you should read up on table
> partitioning. For example, if you keep log data for a year, set up an
> empty parent table and create child tables spanning the appropriate
> subset of the year (month, week, ...). After the child table is
> no-longer needed it can be dropped or truncated depending on your
> situation. Dropping or truncating is far faster than "delete
> from...where..." and causes no table or index bloat.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
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