Re: pg_dump and pg_restore make data dir doubled size? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Yan Chunlu
Subject Re: pg_dump and pg_restore make data dir doubled size?
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Msg-id CAOA66tH-uc1PBsy+m1XVby50s2EjCu7=MEyH+KRude-hrf8SNg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to pg_dump and pg_restore make data dir doubled size?  (Yan Chunlu <springrider@gmail.com>)
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never mind. just found I changed the wal_keep_segments to 5000, it's
the size of pg_xlog dir who used a lot of space.



On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Yan Chunlu <springrider@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just tried several times to make sure I didn't do anything wrong.
>
> I use
> pg_dump -U postgres  -E UTF8  -F c -b -v -a  dbcontent -f  data.backup
> then
> pg_restore -a -d dbcontent data.backup
>
> to restore a db, and the data dir's size on the source machine is
> 56GB,  after I restored data on the target machine, it 130GB,  I did
> vacuum full but nothing changed.
>
> is there anything wrong with the db?

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