Re: Database storage bloat - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Nicolas Kowalski
Subject Re: Database storage bloat
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.58.0404081530180.16240@obiou.imag.fr
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In response to Database storage bloat  (reina_ga@hotmail.com (Tony Reina))
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On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Tony Reina wrote:

> Has anyone run across similar storage concerns? I'd be interested in
> knowing if I just have really poorly designed tables, or if something
> else is going on here. I figure a bloat of 3-4X would be permissible
> (and possibly expected). But this bloat just seems too much.

Yes, however my example is not very accurate because we are still
running an old version (7.2.1, Debian stable).

In our case, dump file created from pg_dumpall is around 4 MB, but the
data directory is around 180MB.

Regards.

--
Nicolas

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