Re: A 154 GB table swelled to 527 GB on the Slony slave. How to compact it?

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: A 154 GB table swelled to 527 GB on the Slony slave. How to compact it?
Date: 2012-03-12 07:39:28
Message-ID: 4F5DA830.4060902@hogranch.com
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On 03/12/12 12:06 AM, Nur Hidayat wrote:
>
> I once have the same problem. In my case it's because most of my table
> using text datatype.
> When I change the field type to character varying (1000) database size
> reduced significantly
>
> Unfortunately, I haven't investigate more, but it looks like how
> postgres stores data

that doesn't make any sense. text and character varying storage is
exactly hte same, the only difference is the varchar has an optional
length constraint

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