Re: PostGreSQL 8.1.0 : out of memory during vacuum full

Thank you for your answer.
Instead of  launching a VACUUM FULL ANALYZE on the "big" table, I will
try to use the "ALTER TABLE SET STATISTICS" command.

I will done this in a second time, during the optimization of  the
benchmark.

Best regards,
Alexandra DANTE


Tom Lane a écrit :

>DANTE ALEXANDRA <ALEXANDRA.DANTE@BULL.NET> writes:
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>>Is it correct ? Why ANALYZE has taken less than one minute ?
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>That's what it's supposed to do --- ANALYZE just samples the table,
>so it's fast even on very large tables.
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>If you think you need better statistics, you could increase the
>statistics target for ANALYZE (see ALTER TABLE SET STATISTICS),
>but VACUUM FULL per se is not going to improve them at all.
>VACUUM and ANALYZE have entirely different purposes --- it's only
>historical happenstance that there is a combination command to do
>both.
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>            regards, tom lane
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DANTE ALEXANDRA a écrit :

> Thank you for your answer.
> To give you more explanations, first, I have launched the ANALYZE
> command on this big table, but the elasped time was very short. As my
> queries launched on this table were very slow, I have tried to launch
> the VACUUM FULL ANALYZE to update the statistics.
>
> Is it correct ? Why ANALYZE has taken less than one minute ?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Regards
> Alexandra DANTE
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> Tom Lane a écrit :
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>> DANTE ALEXANDRA <ALEXANDRA.DANTE@BULL.NET> writes:
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>>> Then, on each table, I have launched the "VACUUM FULL ANALYZE"
>>> command as a non-root user.
>>> This command failed on the last table, the biggest, called
>>> "lineitem" which contains 1799989091 rows (near 300 Gb of datas).
>>>
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>> VACUUM FULL requires workspace proportional to the number of blocks in
>> the table.  You probably need to bump up the kernel's per-process memory
>> limit (see ulimit and so on) if you want to VACUUM FULL such a large
>> table.
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>> My advice: you shouldn't be using VACUUM FULL anyway.  Quite aside from
>> the memory issue, it's likely to take forever and a day.
>>
>>             regards, tom lane
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