In SQLite and PosgreSQL, the VACUUM command rebuilds the entire database.
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How do I observe this recursive function with GHood or Vacuum?
I'm using GHood to watch the execution of this implementation of the partition function and expected to see a binary tree. Instead I get this tree:
import Debug.Observe
p :: (Observable a, Ord a, Num a) => a -> a -> a
p k n
| k > n = 0
| k ==…

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Is vacuum needed for in-memory sqlite database?
I use an in-memory sqlite database for some queueing of stuff between multiple threads and therefore we have a lot of writes, reads and deletes. But there are never more that a few KB in the database at a time. Now some customers complain memory…

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Postgres cant vacuum despite enough space left (could not resize shared memory segment bytes)
I have a docker-compose file with
postgres:
container_name: second_postgres_container
image: postgres:latest
shm_size: 1g
and i wanted to vacuum a table, but got
ERROR: could not resize shared memory segment "/PostgreSQL.301371499" to…

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How to Vacuum FULL on Primary node with Streaming replication in Postgresql 11
On production I have database of size 150 GB. Many rows are deleted from this table and Vacuum is applied on this. Now I need to release unused space from DB to disk for OS. So Vacuum Full needs to be applied.
Streaming replication is configured on…

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Is autovacuum (VACUUM) the reason why this PostgreSQL UPDATE query occasionally takes hours to finish running?
This sql query normally only takes a few minutes to run:
update import_parts ip
set part_manufacturer_id = pslc.part_manufacturer_id
from parts.part_supplier_line_codes pslc
where trim(lower(ip.line_code)) = trim(lower(pslc.supplier_line_code))
and…

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In what order should I call ANALYZE and VACUUM in an SQLite3 database?
In what order should I call ANALYZE and VACUUM in an SQLite3 database? What is the difference if there is any? My use case is to create a database for lookup, so I fill it with data, call ANALYZE and VACUUM and then never modify the database…

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sqlite incremental vacuum removing only one free page
I have changed value of auto_vacuum PRAGMA of my sqlite database to INCREMENTAL. When I run PRAGMA incremental_vacuum; through 'DB Browser for SQlite' application it frees all the pages in the free_list.
But when I am running same statement using…

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Postgresql - large delete from 500Gb DB / auto-vacuum?
I need to delete around 80% of my 500Gb Postgresql DB.
I have successfully run a delete command for around 50Gb of rows so far, and paused before proceeding. (This took a long time, perhaps one hour)
I notice that after deleting around 50Gb of data,…

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Determining the most important tables to ANALYZE
Based on this (https://stackoverflow.com/a/13954487/1543618) answer to a question regarding automated VACUUM FULL of bloated tables, a DBA (who doesn't work here anymore) developed a script to determine which tables to ANALYZE.
Note: this is v8.4…

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What does removable mean in Postgres' vacuum output?
I have run a full VACUUM to a Postgres table with 9 million rows and I got this back:
INFO: vacuuming "osm.asp_trs_roads_osm"
INFO: "asp_trs_roads": found 329992 removable, 9660438 nonremovable row versions in 761738 pages
DETAIL: 0 dead row…

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PostgreSQL vacuuming a big table
I have Postgres 9.4.7 and I have a big table ~100M rows and 20 columns. The table queries are 1.5k selects, 150 inserts and 300 updates per minute, no deletes though. Here is my autovacuum config:
autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor…

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Altering column type from int to bigint frees space?
I have table with an int type column, in a table of ~ 15 M rows.
OS windows 7 and C disk (where postgres is installed) shows that:
59 GB free of 238 GB
Then I changed this column type to bigint:
ALTER TABLE mytable ALTER column col TYPE…

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Postgresql 9.4 - pg_largeobject size does't correspond with the size of stored objects?
I've got a database which has approximately 43GB. When I count the size of pg_largeobject table it gives me 43GB too:
SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_table_size('pg_largeobject'));
When I sum the sizes of all large objects by the following…

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How to get SQLite 'VACUUM' Progress
Is there a way to get the progress of sqlite 'VACUUM'?I am using this line of code here in Java:
connection1.createStatement().executeUpdate("VACUUM");
The User(MySelf & I) has to wait from some seconds to some minutes,i know that the actual .db…

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How to deal with a stuck PostgreSQL 9.3 VACUUM ANALYZE?
We run PostgreSQL 9.3 on the AWS RDS platform. Every night at 1am we've been running a global VACUUM ANALYZE job.
Yesterday we observed severe degradation in performance and as it turned out we had 5 VACUUM ANALYZE processes stuck for the past 5…

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