Re: Getting a copy of the Cuirass (berlin.guixsd.org) database

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Danny,

Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 22:00:06 +0100
> Björn Höfling <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if anybody else responded to you, but I have a database
>> around. I got it last year from Clement Lassieur. It is 1.6 GB in size,
>> I made a tar.xz an that is only 86 MB! I wonder if there is anything
>> wrong or it is just thaaat compressible!
>
> I think we didn't set up the infrastructure to VACUUM the database.
>
> The default in sqlite is not to VACUUM ever, so we probably should
> either stop the entire thing and vacuum it once a week or we could
> set up autovacuum to incremental or full (the latter would vacuum
> at each commit) if we ever ran out of space.

What would it take to enable autovacuum?  Sounds like something we
should do.  :-)

Ludo’.