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 21:42:10
Message-ID: 4F5E6DB2.3070800@hogranch.com
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On 03/12/12 2:28 PM, Nur Hidayat wrote:
> If I didn't change the data type to charcater varying vaccuming the database doesn't reduce the database size

changing the data type required every tuple to get rewritten. a
vacuum full, or a cluster likely would have done the same or better
reduction in size..

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