Re: Database taking up space rapidly

Tom,
 
I was able to locate a bad reporting program (apparently the pg update to 7.4 caused some mismatched datatypes, i
believe,from the logs.) that was causing this.
 
 
I will look into pg_class for the relfilenode 17610 and others to see if i can free  up the space already taken up...
 
Thanks,
Anjan
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] 
Sent: Fri 12/26/2003 6:29 PM 
To: Anjan Dave 
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org 
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Database taking up space rapidly 



    "Anjan Dave" <adave@vantage.com> writes: 
    > Here's where I find the bulk of the large files: 
    > -rw-------    1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Dec 23 18:57 17610 
    > -rw-------    1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Dec 23 22:41 17610.1 
    > [ etc ] 

    So, which table or index has relfilenode 17610 (look in pg_class)? 
    What sorts of operations are you doing on it? 

    > Not sure what's going on here...also vacuum analyzed the db a few 
    > minutes ago. 

    The question is more like how often do you run vacuum.  You probably 
    need more frequent routine vacuumings, larger FSM settings, or a 
    combination. 

                            regards, tom lane