But it'll do so immediately after I run a full vacuum on the entire database? Nothing has changed. This is a development box. You know, I bet it doesn't refresh the view of the database after having run the maintenance script.. Matthew Hartman Programmer/Analyst Information Management, ICP Kingston General Hospital (613) 549-6666 x4294 -----Original Message----- From: Dave Page [mailto:dpage@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 12:00 PM To: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz Cc: Hartman, Matthew; pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Vacuum on the database versus individual tables. 2009/6/25 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman@xxxxxxxxx>: > 2009/6/25 Hartman, Matthew <Matthew.Hartman@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> Windows XP, PostgreSQL 8.3.5, using pgAdmin III 1.8.4. It's the typical "Running vacuum on this table is recommended" dialog box. > > Well, it really has nothing to do with postgresql it self. Either it > is a bug or property of PgAdmin, but I don't know. > Either someone who knows more about pgadmin is going to respond here, > or you have to ask on pgadmin list. pgAdmin will advise vacuuming a table if there is a significant discrepancy between the number of rows in the table and the value in pg_class.reltuples. i forget the exact algorithm off-hand, but it takes the size of the table into account, and is looking for a %age difference between the value, not a set number of rows. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
