Re: Massive table bloat

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Sergey Konoplev <gray(dot)ru(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Michael Sawyers <msawyers(at)iii(dot)com> wrote:
>> We have a table currently using 33gb worth of space for only 152mb worth of
>> data because of bad processes or autovacuum not being aggressive enough. I
>> was able to confirm the size difference by doing a create table as select
>> along with a second test of restoring the table from the dump file to a dev
>> machine.
>
> You can use pgcompactor (http://code.google.com/p/pgtoolkit/) to
> gently reduce bloat. It does not use heavy locks, processes both
> tables and indexes, determines if one is bloated and tested on 8.4.

Sorry, forget to mention. It does not need an extra space and does not
required a service window.

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