vacuumdb uses a lot of disk - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alexander Shutyaev
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Responses Re: vacuumdb uses a lot of disk  (Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@ymail.com>)
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Hi all!

We have the following issue. When we use vacuumdb (NOT full) on our postgres database (~320Gb) it takes up ~10Gb of disk space which is never returned. Why is the space not returned?

Thanks in advance!

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