Adrian, I am trying to avoid to do any tweaking to this legacy system that nobody knows well (we inherited it recently).
Do you think it might help if we possibly drop old tables (I assume their indices will be removed too), so the overall number of objects will go down? Thanks a lot
From: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 12:43 PM To: Julie Nishimura; pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; pgsql-general Subject: Re: POSTGRES_FSM_RELATIONS CRITICAL: DB control fsm relations used: 79569 of 80000 (99%) On 5/28/19 11:20 AM, Julie Nishimura wrote:
> What is the impact of fsm_relatiosn being maxed out? > It has been awhile since I thought about this as these settings are no longer relevant as of 8.4: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/release-8-4.html " Track free space in separate per-relation "fork" files (Heikki) Free space discovered by VACUUM is now recorded in *_fsm files, rather than in a fixed-sized shared memory area. The max_fsm_pages and max_fsm_relations settings have been removed, greatly simplifying administration of free space management. " To get to your question, I would take a look at: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/runtime-config-resource.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-RESOURCE-FSM Pay attention to the embedded link in the above: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/kernel-resources.html#SYSVIPC -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx |