Re: A 154 GB table swelled to 527 GB on the Slony slave. How to compact it? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: A 154 GB table swelled to 527 GB on the Slony slave. How to compact it?
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In response to Re: A 154 GB table swelled to 527 GB on the Slony slave. How to compact it?  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> If the du -s numbers don't change or only a little then feel free to
> either run a single update while running
>
> watch "df -h /var/lib/where/my/data/dir/lives"
>
> and being ready to hit CTRL-C if you see if running your machine out of memory.

OR batch them in batches of x 10000 or so and df or du in between.

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