VACUUM FULL fails to free diskspace - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Morten Guldager
Subject VACUUM FULL fails to free diskspace
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0210161453090.25978-100000@guldager.uni.to
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Hi,

My database cluster have one database with one table. (if we don't count
template0 and 1 :-)

My table has 3 collumns, 2 ints and a bytea. 2.5M rows and it consumes
150G diskspace. I have a unique index on the 2 ints.

I did a truncate on the table, and a VACUUM FULL.

But PostgreSQL-7.2.3 did not return the space to the filesystem. (ext3 on
linux)

Even when I drop the database the diskspace stayes allocated.


/Morten %-)
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