Re: TOAST Table / Dead Tuples / Free Pages

Hi

You can use the CLUSTER command, which will physically reorder the table
based on index, effectively reducing the size of the table without using
VACUUM.

CLUSTER your_table USING your_index;

Or you can use the pg_repack extension as well.

pg_repack -d your_database -t your_table

Regards
Kashif Zeeshan

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 12:55 PM Shenavai, Manuel <manuel(dot)shenavai(at)sap(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
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> I created a simple scenario to understand the handling of TOASTs
> <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-toast.html>: There is an
> empty database with a single table and record. The single record gets
> updated multiple times with 10MB (bytea column). I can see that the
> table/toasttable size is growing (500MB).
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> Now I tried to find a way to get the DB size down again (it should be
> around 10MB instead of 500MB). I don’t want to use VACUUM FULL due to the
> exclusive lock.
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> Is there any way to remove the dead tuples and free the pages?
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> Thanks in advance &
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> Best regards,
>
> Manuel
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