Re: Full vacuum may reclaim space - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Full vacuum may reclaim space
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Msg-id 21998.1180563093@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Full vacuum may reclaim space  (Gino.Barille@gmail.com)
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Gino.Barille@gmail.com writes:
> Other than the fact that no space may need to be reclaimed is anyone
> aware of any circumstance - e.g. use of numeric data types - where a
> full vacuum will simply not reclaim space?

There are several corner cases where the code will abandon shrinking.
What are you concerned about exactly?

            regards, tom lane

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