"Esger Abbink" <pggeneral@bumblebeast.com> writes:
> On two production server (7.2rc2) of ours the data directory is growing
> to very large sizes while the data that is actually in the db's isnt 1.
> that large and 2. growing.
You're running a release candidate of 7.2? That's pretty old and has
known bugs...
Your problem, however, is probably index bloat, which is not fixed by
VACUUM in the version you're running. If you REINDEX you should see
storage usage go back to normal.
The upcoming 7.4 should suffer much less from the index bloat problem.
-Doug
