Re: vacuum full doubled database size

From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: vacuum full doubled database size
Date: 2020-03-13 15:15:10
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This is why I'd VACUUM FULL in a planned manner, one or two tables at a
time, and *locally* from crontab.

On 3/13/20 8:41 AM, Zwettler Markus (OIZ) wrote:
>
> We did a "vacuum full" on a database which had been interrupted by a
> network outage.
>
> We found the database size doubled afterwards.
>
> Autovacuum also found a lot of orphaned tables afterwards.
>
> The ophan temp objects went away after a cluster restart while the db size
> remained doubled.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Postgres 9.6.17
>

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