Re: Need help in reclaiming disk space by deleting the selected records - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Steve Crawford
Subject Re: Need help in reclaiming disk space by deleting the selected records
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Msg-id 5053405A.3070503@pinpointresearch.com
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In response to Re: Need help in reclaiming disk space by deleting the selected records  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 09/14/2012 05:35 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Friday, September 14, 2012 01:29:59 AM Steve Crawford wrote:
>> 2. CLUSTER is typically way faster than VACUUM FULL and rebuilds the
>> indexes as well but it temporarily requires sufficient disk-space to
>> write out a copy of the table being clustered.
> Thats not the case anymore since 9.0 btw. These days VACUUM FULL does the same
> thing CLUSTER does just without sorting.
>
>
That's true - I should have pointed that out. But it also means that you
can get into a corner if you need to vacuum full large tables when you
have limited free disk space - something the OP should consider since
reclaiming disk space was one of his motivations.

Cheers,
Steve


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