pgdump and restore results in different sizes DB

From: "Jean R(dot) Franco" <jfranco(at)maila(dot)biz>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgdump and restore results in different sizes DB
Date: 2017-09-04 11:35:31
Message-ID: 3e75543bdc093c158f050b3dfc0afe8e@maila.biz
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Hello Everyone,

I'm moving a postgresql server from one server to another, both running versions 9.4.10
It's a single large database and I'm using pgdump to export and restoring on the new server.

The thing is, on the old server the database size is 81GB, but when I restore on the new server, it decreases to 60GB

List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges | Size | Tablespace | Description
------------+----------+----------+---------+-------+-------------------+-------+------------+-------------
ecidade | postgres | LATIN1 | C | C | | 60 GB | pg_default |

I'm watching the whole process of restoring it and have no errors.
What could I been doing wrong?

Thanks,

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