Re: Bloated tables and why is vacuum full the only option

From: Sergey Konoplev <gray(dot)ru(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: postgres performance list <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bloated tables and why is vacuum full the only option
Date: 2014-02-09 22:32:18
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On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> What I'm seeing, though, is not that, but bloat proportional to table
> size (always stuck at about 65% bloat). What's weird, is that vacuum
> full does the trick of reducing table size and bloat back to 0%. I
> haven't had time yet to verify whether it goes back to 65% after
> vacuum full (that will take time, maybe a month).

Try pgcompact, it was designed particularily for such cases like yours
https://github.com/grayhemp/pgtoolkit.

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