Subject: Re: Disk Space issue
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Devendra Singh Rawat <Devendra_Rawat@infosys.com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin@postgresql.org" <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
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On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 09:58 +1000, Devendra Singh Rawat wrote:
> Hi Joshua,
> 
> We used Vacuum Full but were not successful. The reclaimed disk space was only few MB.
> I did not get to which version I need to update my Postgres.

VACUUM FULL may not reclaim your index space if it bloated out. What you
are best to look at is the type of queries are being run. Determine what
is getting bloated and look at modifying how you maintain that relation.

7.4.19 (which hits soon)

Joshua D. Drake


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> Regards,
> Devendra
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd@commandprompt.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 June 2008 9:55 AM
> To: Devendra Singh Rawat
> Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Disk Space issue
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 09:36 +1000, Devendra Singh Rawat wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are using PostgreSQL 7.4.5 and facing issues with increasing disk space.
> >
> > Here is some information about our configuration.
> >
> > The data dump size is around 3 GB. And it is occupying around 120GB on the disk. When we recreate the database from data dump it takes around 3.5GB of disk space.
> > But the database size increases by 1 GB daily though actual data added maybe in KB. We are not able to decipher as to what is causing this increase.
> >
> > Suggestions on the likely problems will be appreciated.
> 
> You are likely not vacuuming nearly enough.
> 
> I would also suggest strongly you update to the latest 7.4 dot release.
> 
> Joshua D. Drake
> 
> >
> > Regards,
> > Devendra
> >
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