Re: significant vacuum issues - looking for suggestions

>>> Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org> 08/27/07 4:00 PM >>>
> > > They're running  version 8.1.4
>
> As for your pg_dump idea... why not just do a CREATE TABLE AS SELECT *
> FROM bloated_table? That would likely be much faster than messing around
> with pg_dump.

He wanted to upgrade to 8.2.4.  CREATE TABLE AS won't get him there.

> > > They're running  version 8.1.4 on 4-way dell boxes
> > > with 4Gig of memory on each box attached to RAID-10 disk arrays.
>
> What kind of disk hardware is this running on? A good raid 10 array with
> write caching should be able to handle a 200G database fairly well

What other details were you looking for?

-Kevin