Re: A 154 GB table swelled to 527 GB on the Slony slave. How to compact it?

FYI, after I changed text field into character varying, I vaccuum the whole database, resulting in much smaller database size

Cheers,
NH

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Nur Hidayat" <hidayat365(at)gmail(dot)com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:18:09
To: John R Pierce<pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>; <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Reply-To: hidayat365(at)gmail(dot)com
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] A 154 GB table swelled to 527 GB on the Slony slave. How to compact it?

Yes, I am aware of that, but that's the fact I'm facing
Right now I'am happy enough my system runs well without eating up my drive :)
I'll investigate more later when time available :)

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Nur Hidayat

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-----Original Message-----
From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
Sender: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)orgDate: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:39:28
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] A 154 GB table swelled to 527 GB on the Slony slave.
How to compact it?

On 03/12/12 12:06 AM, Nur Hidayat wrote:
>
> I once have the same problem. In my case it's because most of my table
> using text datatype.
> When I change the field type to character varying (1000) database size
> reduced significantly
>
> Unfortunately, I haven't investigate more, but it looks like how
> postgres stores data

that doesn't make any sense. text and character varying storage is
exactly hte same, the only difference is the varchar has an optional
length constraint

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