Re: Why does my DB size differ between Production and DR? (Postgres 8.4)

From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Why does my DB size differ between Production and DR? (Postgres 8.4)
Date: 2011-02-02 07:07:37
Message-ID: 63064bf0b09a9be5d2cdcd69cddceb3b@biglumber.com
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>> Bucardo's "check_postgres.pl --action bloat" complains about one table,
>> 1 GB wasted. So the other tables must be OK.

> Pretty sure that unless you give it more args, the default for bloat
> check is to list the first bloated table and stop.

No, it will show all tables over the given threshhold. However, the
statement "the other tables must be OK" is definitely not a given,
as the bloat calculation used by check_postgres is a very rough one.

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