Re: On-disk size of db increased after restore

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, 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: 2010-09-02 17:22:07
Message-ID: 26270.1283448127@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Excerpts from Devrim GNDZ's message of mi sep 01 17:39:55 -0400 2010:
>> On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 17:32 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> But are you sure there aren't some fillfactor tweaks in there too?
>>
>> I'm sure. fillfactor related changes are on the radar, but I did not
>> commit them yet...

> Maybe you're on one of these versions on which, if you tweaked the
> autovacuum settings, the fillfactor magically got moved to some other
> value.

Oh, bingo, that could be it. IIRC that bug actually caused fillfactor
to effectively become *zero*. Devrim, have you identified yet which
tables have the bloat? Are they the ones with tweaked autovacuum
parameters?

regards, tom lane

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