Re: disk space usage enlarging despite vacuuming

From: "Shridhar Daithankar" <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: disk space usage enlarging despite vacuuming
Date: 2003-05-17 15:47:22
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On 14 May 2003 at 15:02, Tzvetan Tzankov wrote:

> hallo,
>
> I use debian package postgresql 7.3.2r1-2, it is set to vacuum every 5
> hours and once weekly (sunday) vacuum -f, aditionally there are some
> session tables which vacuum at 5 minutes, dispite this the disk usage
> enlarges with 300-400MB for about 2 days and in sundey with the full vacuum
> very few MB-s are recovered.

Try reindexing. Space went into indexes is not recovered with vacuum.. That
might help..

HTH

Bye
Shridhar

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