Thread: oid_index size problem

Hi,

 I wrote an application that uses PgSQL as database backend. It ran for
almost a year and now it's database directory grew to 85633Kbyte.
Inspecting this directory, I found out that a file called oid_index grew
to 84058112 bytes, i.e. 99% of the database is index. What went wrong?
What can be done now? I use a PgSQL 6.4.2 on a AIX 4.2..

    THanks in advance


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Sebestyen Zoltan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  I wrote an application that uses PgSQL as database backend. It ran for
> almost a year and now it's database directory grew to 85633Kbyte.
> Inspecting this directory, I found out that a file called oid_index grew
> to 84058112 bytes, i.e. 99% of the database is index. What went wrong?
> What can be done now? I use a PgSQL 6.4.2 on a AIX 4.2..
>
>         THanks in advance
just a wild guess, have you ever run vacuum ?


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