Re: diskspace - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Rosser Schwarz
Subject Re: diskspace
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In response to Re: diskspace  (Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@geoff.dj>)
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On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@geoff.dj> wrote:
Indexes are stored separately. There should be no free space (why would there be? FILLFACTOR is 100!) and I've vacuumed already.

Did you just VACUUM, or did you VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER?  Vanilla vacuuming merely marks space consumed by "dead" tuples as re-usable; it doesn't reclaim the space and reduce the disk footprint of your tables.

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