On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:06 AM, S H <msq001@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Got some information from following > > http://www.depesz.com/2011/07/06/bloat-happens/ > > What is the general solution to avoid bloating. 1: Don't do massive deletes 2: Make sure your autovacuum is tuned aggressively enough to keep up with your workload 3: Make sure your hardware is fast enough to allow autovacuum to be tuned aggressively enough to keep up with your workload. Some minor bloating is fine. 10, 20, 50% dead space in a table is no big deal. OTOH, 99.99% dead space probably is. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
