Thread: Reclaiming space from a toast table

Reclaiming space from a toast table

From
"Benjamin Krajmalnik"
Date:

We recently added a text field to a table, and ended up dropping it and moving it to a separate related table for performance reasons.

Previously, the toast table size was negligible, but now it is over 250MB.

I have tried performing a vacuum full against the table (this is an inherited table), but it did not appear to reclaim the space.

Is there any way to reclaim the space other than a dump/restore of the tables?