Andrew Gould <andrewgould(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> The process above resulted in an **increase** in
> database size from 12GB to 14GB.
> I'm both surprised and stumped.
Seems odd to me too. Like Einar, I am wondering about index sizes.
An easy way to get some data is to do a VACUUM so that the relpages
statistics are up to date, and then do
select relname,relkind,relpages from pg_class order by relpages desc;
regards, tom lane