Re: Vacuum Doesn't Recover Disk Space - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From j a
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Msg-id 9da20ce20711061619r7dde0f50ke547e766cac2634e@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Vacuum Doesn't Recover Disk Space  ("Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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Thanks for the tip. I probably should've waited for vacuum to actually
finish instead of cancelling it prematurely (thinking PG Admin was
finished).

On Nov 6, 2007 12:42 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/6/07, j a <inboundfilter@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a large table that I remove around 10m rows from every 2 months. I
> > try running Vacuum Full w/Analyze (both boxes checked in PG Admin), but the
> > disk space is never returned to the system. Any way I can force this?
> >
> > I'm running 7.4 on CentOS4.3
>
> You likely have index bloat.  try reindexing.
>

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