Re: is this normal?

How do you do dump? With compressness?
Do you have a lot of dead tuples/index entries?

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Subject: [ADMIN] is this normal?

Dear all,

I have a postgresql database.

"du -ks /var/lib/pgsql/data" gives me the following disk usage
45592808 /var/lib/pgsql/data (about 44G)

But after I did a pg_dump, the dump file only has the size of 5.9 G.

Thank you for your kind reply and comments.

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Chuming Chen
System Administrator
NHLBI Proteomics Center
Medical University of South Carolina
135 Cannon Street, Suite 303
Charleston SC 29425
Tel: 843-792-1555 (O)
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