From: Shridhar Polas <shridharpolas@gmail.com>
To: 'Kenneth Marshall' <ktm@rice.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Space occupied by Postgres index.
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:12:23 +0530
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<20101130172841.GK19162@aart.is.rice.edu>
Thanks for a quick response Ken.
One more query:-
If I do not perform VACUUM FULL and REINDEX, does Postgres reclaimed the
space automatically when number of records in tables reduce after touching
some limit? I mean the total disk space consumed by Postgres would ever be
decline at any point without performing VACUUM FULL and REINDEX?
In my test setup I found that the disk space consumed by Postgers is not
getting declined even after deleting records from tables, if I do not
perform VACUUM FULL and REINDEX.
Thanks again
Shridhar
-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Marshall [mailto:ktm@rice.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 10:59 PM
To: Shridhar Polas
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Space occupied by Postgres index.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:56:53PM +0530, Shridhar Polas wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I am facing a problem where indexes creates on some tables are
> occupying huge space on disk and it seems to me that this space is not
> getting reclaimed even when there are very few record in an associated
table.
>
>
>
> When I ran full vacuum the disk space was reclaimed occupied by tables
> but not by disk space occupied by indexes.
>
>
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> Can somebody please tell me when disk space occupied by Postgres index
> is reclaimed, without performing re-indexing on those tables?
>
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> Thanks,
>
> Shridhar
>
VACUUM FULL will cause index bloat. You will need to REINDEX to recover the
space. Note, you should not really need to use VACUUM FULL in a normal
correctly configured system.
Cheers,
Ken
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