On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 08:20:36AM -0700, Charles.Hou wrote: > because if the size of database have been increased 36MB in one day , > then it will be 1G MB increased after 1 month. so i worry about the > size. other strange thing, if i block all postgresql client and run > vacuumdb, there will have about 100MB free space. Your conclusion of linear growth doesn't actually follow from your premises. In any case, it sounds to me like (1) you're not vacuuming often enough and (2) you have transactions open from the clients which are preventing vacuuming from being effective. Autovacuum will solve (1) now that you've enabled it, but you need to fix your existing bloat (which probably means either VACUUM FULL or CLUSTER and REINDEX). (2) is a bigger problem, which you need to address at the client. Also, I bet your free space map is too small. Increase it. I have the feeling, on the basis of this thread, that you need to spend some more time with the manual. A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx In the future this spectacle of the middle classes shocking the avant- garde will probably become the textbook definition of Postmodernism. --Brad Holland