Re: System catalog vacuum issues

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:37 AM, Vlad Arkhipov <arhipov@dc.baikal.ru> wrote:
>> What pgstattuple shows on this table?
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/pgstattuple.html
>>
>
> dcdb=# select * from pgstattuple('pg_catalog.pg_attribute');
>  table_len  | tuple_count | tuple_len | tuple_percent | dead_tuple_count |
> dead_tuple_len | dead_tuple_percent | free_space | free_percent
>
------------+-------------+-----------+---------------+------------------+----------------+--------------------+------------+--------------
>  6363938816 |       48786 |   6830040 |          0.11 | 1459439 |
> 204321460 |               3.21 | 5939017376 | 93.32
> (1 row)

I guess you need to VACUUM FULL pg_attribute, if it is possible in
your situation of course. If it is not, let me know, I have another
one tricky way of solving this problem in my mind.

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