Re: On-disk size of db increased after restore

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, PostgreSQL - General ML <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: On-disk size of db increased after restore
Date: 2010-09-03 13:41:00
Message-ID: 21406.1283521260@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Devrim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=DCND=DCZ?= <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> writes:
> On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 13:22 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Devrim, have you identified yet which tables have the bloat? Are they
>> the ones with tweaked autovacuum parameters?

> That's it.

> On prod server, that table consumes 50 GB disk space, and on the backup
> machine, it uses 148 GB. I applied custom autovac settings only to that
> table.

> This is 8.4.4 btw...

OK, so the bug is fixed, but you still have fillfactor = 0 on the
affected table.

> So, what should I do now?

Explicitly reset the table's fillfactor to default (100), then
you'll need to CLUSTER or VACUUM FULL or something.

regards, tom lane

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