Re: disk space usage unexpected

On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 14:59 -0500, Rose Zhou wrote:
> Good day,
>
> I have a PostgreSQL 8.4 database installed on WinXP x64 with very heavy
> writing and updating on a partitioned table. Sometimes within one minute,
> there are tens of file with size=1,048,576kb (such as
> filenode.1,filenode.2,...filenode.43) created in the database subdirectory
> within PGDATA/base.
>
> This caused the disk space quickly used up. Is this expected?

Yes. Especially if autovacuum is not keeping up with the number of
updates.

Joshua D. Drake


>
> Thanks for any information
>
>
>
> Best Regards
>
> Rose Zhou
>
>


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