On Monday 27 August 2007 15:56:33 Kevin Grittner wrote: > >>> Decibel! <decibel@xxxxxxxxxxx> 08/27/07 4:00 PM >>> > >>> > > > > They're running version 8.1.4 > > > > As for your pg_dump idea... why not just do a CREATE TABLE AS SELECT * > > FROM bloated_table? That would likely be much faster than messing around > > with pg_dump. > > He wanted to upgrade to 8.2.4. CREATE TABLE AS won't get him there. > > > > > They're running version 8.1.4 on 4-way dell boxes > > > > with 4Gig of memory on each box attached to RAID-10 disk arrays. > > > > What kind of disk hardware is this running on? A good raid 10 array with > > write caching should be able to handle a 200G database fairly well > > What other details were you looking for? > > -Kevin > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to > choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not > match I decided to fix this table first - did so by creating a new table, running a select from insert into and renaming the orig table to old_XXX and then renamed the new table to the orig table's name. I'll drop the orig table once I'm sure there are no data issues. I'm planning to setup a new file system layout for the box(es) and try to do a pg_dump | psql for the upgrade. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
