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From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: On-disk size of db increased after restore
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Msg-id AANLkTikv92RujZnT=TDuYCsnybxuD4mk47Eh1SkmUiqO@mail.gmail.com
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In response to On-disk size of db increased after restore  (Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org>)
Responses Re: On-disk size of db increased after restore  (Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org>)
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2010/8/31 Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org>:
>
> I tried to restore one of our db backups to 3 different machines today.
>
> After restore, all machines reported larger on-disk size, and also
> psql's \l+ confirmed that.
>
> Here is the live machine:
> On-disk size: 84 GB
> Size reported by psql: 79 GB
>
> Backup machine 1:
>
> On-disk size: 162 GB
> Size reported by psql: 177 GB
>
> Backup machine 2:
> On-disk size: 179 GB
> Size reported by psql: 177 GB

They're about 2x as big.  Any chance you've restored to different dbs
and have two copies?  Or double the data in one db?

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