From most of the reply found that upgrade to higher version of postgres may be to 8.3.1 may be one of the solution to tackle this problem
Checked about HOT feature in
8.3.1.Do we need to do any special config changes or any other setting for HOT to work??
Any special guideline to follow to make HOT working??
~ Gauri
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Greg Smith <
gsmith@gregsmith.com> wrote:
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Gauri Kanekar wrote:
We do vacuum full, as vacuum verbose analyse dont regain space for us.
Whenever you UPDATE a row, it writes a new one out, then switches to use that version. This leaves behind the original. Those now unused rows are what VACUUM gathers, but it doesn't give that space back to the operating system.
The model here assumes that you'll need that space again for the next time you UPDATE or INSERT a row. So instead VACUUM just keeps those available for database reuse rather than returning it to the operating system.
Now, if you don't VACUUM frequently enough, this model breaks down, and the table can get bigger with space that may never get reused. The idea is that you should be VACUUMing up now unneeded rows at about the same rate they're being re-used. When you don't keep up, the database can expand in space that you don't get back again. The right answer to this problem is not to use VACUUM FULL; it's to use regular VACUUM more often.
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Regards
Gauri