Re: why the DB file size does not reduce when 'delete' the data in DB?

On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Jaruwan Laongmal wrote:

> I had deleted a very large number of records out of my SQL table in order to
> decrease the harddisk space. But after I use command 'ls -l
> /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/', it is found that the size of concerning files
> do not reduce due to the effect of 'delete' SQL command. What should I do
> if I would like to decrease the harddisk space?

Postgres will only mark them as deleted, but the rows will stay in the
DB.
Do a vacuum on the database and the deleted rows will be eliminated.

Saludos... ;-)

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but someone told I had to do it.
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