[ovirt-users] Re: Clean up engine database?

Hi! We have similar problem and it looks like psql vacuuming isn't working properly. I expect that this problem will be gone when we will upgrade ovirt to latest version. Until then we are performing weekly vacuuming of top N (usualy 4) tables by "external size" in ovirt_engine_history database. A little bit more about vacuuming: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/sql-vacuum.html External size: https://wiki-bsse.ethz.ch/display/ITDOC/Check+size+of+tables+and+objects+... , https://matjaz.it/tutorial-sizes-of-tables-and-databases-in-postgresql/ Example which queries we are running in our case: To get top 4 tables ordered by "external size": SELECT relname, pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size(relid)), pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size(relid) - pg_relation_size(relid)) FROM pg_catalog.pg_statio_user_tables ORDER BY pg_total_relation_size(relid) DESC limit 4; We use names from previous query and perform vacuum table by table: VACUUM (VERBOSE, FULL) ${TABLE}; To get new size of table after vaccuming: SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size(relid) - pg_relation_size(relid)) FROM pg_catalog.pg_statio_user_tables WHERE relname::text like '${TABLE}'; Note that ${TABLE} is variable with value for example: "vm_interface_samples_history" I suggest to run few queries and check "external size" of your tables. In our case vacuuming has huge effect on releasing disk space and it takes jus few seconds for database. Oh yes, I almost forgot. As Strahi said, there is some ovirt tool (script) for cleaning up psql database but in our case it didn't have such huge effect as it didn't perform full vacuum. Regards, Pavel On 11/10/2019 15:50, Strahil Nikolov wrote: -- -- Pavel Sipos, Arnes <pavel.sipos(a)arnes.si&gt; ARNES, p.p. 7, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia T: +386 1 479 88 00 W: www.arnes.si, aai.arnes.si