PostgreSQL and bloat

The bucardo project has released its nagios plugins for PostgreSQL and we can extract from them this nice view in order to check for table and index bloatinto our PostgreSQL databases:

下面是检查表空间的使用情况的脚本：

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW bloat AS
      SELECT
        schemaname, tablename, reltuples::bigint, relpages::bigint, otta,
        ROUND(CASE WHEN otta=0 THEN 0.0 ELSE sml.relpages/otta::numeric END,1) AS tbloat,
        relpages::bigint - otta AS wastedpages,
        bs*(sml.relpages-otta)::bigint AS wastedbytes,
        pg_size_pretty((bs*(relpages-otta))::bigint) AS wastedsize,
        iname, ituples::bigint, ipages::bigint, iotta,
        ROUND(CASE WHEN iotta=0 OR ipages=0 THEN 0.0 ELSE ipages/iotta::numeric END,1) AS ibloat,
        CASE WHEN ipages < iotta THEN 0 ELSE ipages::bigint - iotta END AS wastedipages,
        CASE WHEN ipages < iotta THEN 0 ELSE bs*(ipages-iotta) END AS wastedibytes,
        CASE WHEN ipages < iotta THEN pg_size_pretty(0::bigint) ELSE pg_size_pretty((bs*(ipages-iotta))::bigint) END AS wastedisize
      FROM (
        SELECT
          schemaname, tablename, cc.reltuples, cc.relpages, bs,
          CEIL((cc.reltuples*((datahdr+ma-
            (CASE WHEN datahdr%ma=0 THEN ma ELSE datahdr%ma END))+nullhdr2+4))/(bs-20::float)) AS otta,
          COALESCE(c2.relname,'?') AS iname, COALESCE(c2.reltuples,0) AS ituples, COALESCE(c2.relpages,0) AS ipages,
          COALESCE(CEIL((c2.reltuples*(datahdr-12))/(bs-20::float)),0) AS iotta -- very rough approximation, assumes all cols
        FROM (
          SELECT
            ma,bs,schemaname,tablename,
            (datawidth+(hdr+ma-(case when hdr%ma=0 THEN ma ELSE hdr%ma END)))::numeric AS datahdr,
            (maxfracsum*(nullhdr+ma-(case when nullhdr%ma=0 THEN ma ELSE nullhdr%ma END))) AS nullhdr2
          FROM (
            SELECT
              schemaname, tablename, hdr, ma, bs,
              SUM((1-null_frac)*avg_width) AS datawidth,
              MAX(null_frac) AS maxfracsum,
              hdr+(
                SELECT 1+count(*)/8
                FROM pg_stats s2
                WHERE null_frac<>0 AND s2.schemaname = s.schemaname AND s2.tablename = s.tablename
              ) AS nullhdr
            FROM pg_stats s, (
              SELECT
                (SELECT current_setting('block_size')::numeric) AS bs,
                CASE WHEN substring(v,12,3) IN ('8.0','8.1','8.2') THEN 27 ELSE 23 END AS hdr,
                CASE WHEN v ~ 'mingw32' THEN 8 ELSE 4 END AS ma
              FROM (SELECT version() AS v) AS foo
            ) AS constants
            GROUP BY 1,2,3,4,5
          ) AS foo
        ) AS rs
        JOIN pg_class cc ON cc.relname = rs.tablename
        JOIN pg_namespace nn ON cc.relnamespace = nn.oid AND nn.nspname = rs.schemaname
        LEFT JOIN pg_index i ON indrelid = cc.oid
        LEFT JOIN pg_class c2 ON c2.oid = i.indexrelid
      ) AS sml
      WHERE sml.relpages - otta > 0 OR ipages - iotta > 10
      ORDER BY wastedbytes DESC, wastedibytes DESC;

更详细可以参见check_postgres脚本：

http://bucardo.org/wiki/Check_postgres

参考：

http://pgsql.tapoueh.org/site/html/news/20080131.bloat.html