Re: FSM and VM file - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Subject Re: FSM and VM file
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Msg-id 1267624423.9589.17.camel@hp-laptop2.gunduz.org
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In response to Re: FSM and VM file  (akp geek <akpgeek@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: FSM and VM file  (akp geek <akpgeek@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 08:32 -0500, akp geek wrote:
> Thank you all for the suggestions. I did a vacuum and the size has
> gone down drastically. But still it is not the same size as my master.
> I am looking into it

Plain vacuum does not file system size of relations. It just marks dead
spaces are writable. If you haven't vacuumed for a long time, it
probably means that you have lots of space to be reused.
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ
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