Database size

From: "Leonardo M(dot)" Ramé <l(dot)rame(at)griensu(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Database size
Date: 2010-01-11 18:00:51
Message-ID: 1263232851.2561.9.camel@leonardo-laptop
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A customer of mine asked me to periodically delete old, unneeded records
containing ByteA fields, because he think it will reduce the database
size on disk. Is this true?. For example, in Firebird, the database size
is not reduced until you do a Backup-Restore of the database.

Thanks in advance,
Leonardo M. Ramé
Griensu S.A. - Medical IT Córdoba
Tel.: 0351-4247979

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