As we're talking about fsm, I've got a question I've been asking myself for some time : If a cluster is restarted, is the fsm forgotten ? (so does it mean one should run a vacuum as soon as the database is restarted ?) Le Dimanche 06 Novembre 2005 03:44, Carlos Oliva a écrit : > Should I set the max_fsm_pages to the value reported (vacuum verbose) as > pages stored or the value reported as total pages needed? I ran full + > analyze vacuums in my database (vacuumdb -f -z -v <database name>) a couple > of times and I got the following reports: > > INFO: free space map: 454 relations, 22274 pages stored; 147328 total > pages needed > > DETAIL: Allocated FSM size: 1000 relations + 20000 pages = 178 kB shared > memory > > > > And > > > > INFO: free space map: 454 relations, 22242 pages stored; 147328 total > pages needed > > DETAIL: Allocated FSM size: 1000 relations + 20000 pages = 178 kB shared > memory > > > > I am not sure if I need to raise the max_fsm_pages to something larger than > 22242 (e.g. 40000) or larger than 147,328. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend