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From Colleen Williams
Subject freeing disk space used by postgresql/postmaster
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Msg-id 4.3.2.7.2.20010308124857.02e4cea0@192.168.1.253
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Responses Re: freeing disk space used by postgresql/postmaster  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi
We are experiencing this scenario -
1. at the point postgresql (postmaster) is stopped and restarted the disk
usage was 56% (277336 blocks)
2. after about 2 days the disk usage is 69% (339528 blocks)... after about
1 week it goes up to 100%
3. after stopping and restarting postgresql (postmaster) again the disk
usage is back to 56%
Do we need to start and stop postgresql regularly to free up disk space -
is this normal?
I vacuum the databases regularly but this does not seem to make any difference.
Many Thanks,
Colleen.


Colleen Williams
colleen@digital-arts.co.uk

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