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From: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
To: shlam@ie.cuhk.hk
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: how to clean up pg_log, pg_time and pg_variable?
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 94 03:28:38 -0700
Message-ID: <199406061028.DAA13338@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9406061014.AA14726@eng.ie.cuhk.hk>

shlam@ie.cuhk.hk writes:
> >what pg_log and pg_time store are the commit status and commit time of
> >each transaction.  in theory, this could be compressed by something
> >like run-length encoding (since most transactions commit) or truncated
> >after vacuuming (if you could somehow arrange to vacuum the entire
> >installation..).  in fact, they just grow.
> Is there any tools to compress this files or expire some of
> the information in these log files?

sorry for being long-winded :-)  no.
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  Paul M. Aoki  |  CS Div., Dept. of EECS, UCB  |  aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
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