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Responses Re: pg_toast growth out - PostgreSQL 9.2  ("David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>)
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Hi all,

Trying to understand how can the pg_toast table be 90% of my entire DB?

SELECT nspname || '.' || relname AS "relation",   pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size(C.oid)) AS "size" FROM pg_class C LEFT JOIN pg_namespace N ON (N.oid = C.relnamespace) WHERE nspname NOT IN ('pg_catalog', 'information_schema') ORDER BY pg_relation_size(C.oid) DESC LIMIT 20;

Results:

pg_toast.pg_toast_7255249   1581 GB
public.ja_feedlog   81 GB

Total DB size: 1.7 TB

What's going on here? Is there anything I can do to save up some disk space?

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