Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
Craig James wrote:
Are the FSM parameters for each database, or the entire Postgres
system? In other words, if I have 100 databases, do I need to increase
max_fsm_pages and max_fsm_relations by a factor of 100, or keep them the
same as if I just have one database?
I suspect they're per-database, i.e. as I add databases, I don't have to
increase the FSM parameters, but the documentation isn't 100% clear on
this point.
It's per cluster, ie *not* per-database.
Hmmm ... it seems I have an impossible problem. I have ~250 databases each with about 2500 relations (as in "select count(1) from pg_class where relname not like 'pg_%'"). That makes roughly 625,000 relations.
But ... for max_fsm_pages, the Postgres manual says, "This setting must be at least 16 * max_fsm_relations. The default is chosen by initdb depending on the amount of available memory, and can range from 20k to 200k pages."
So max_fsm_pages should be 16*625000, or 10,000,000 ... except that the limit is 200,000. Or is it only the *default* that can be 200,000 max, but you can override and set it to any number you like?
It appears that Postgres 8.3 and earlier can't do garbage collection on a configuration like mine. Do I misunderstand something?
The parameter is gone in 8.4, BTW.
Both max_fsm_relations and max_fsm_pages?
Thanks,
Craig
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