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From: Oleg Samoylov <olleg@telecom.mipt.ru>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Vacuum Question
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:42:52 +0300
Message-ID: <3E5B56BC.7060507@telecom.mipt.ru> (raw)
References: <000001c2d97d$b11814c0$e3026b83@intranet.cir.fr>

Reindex database also. Look for documentation 7.3.1 , Rounting Reindex.
contrib/reindex can help you, even you have older version.

Pascal PEYRE wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use postgresql 7.2.x on Linux 2.4.18-6mdksmp #1 SMP i686
> 
> I have some big postgreSQL databases (4/5 GB at start) on this server.
> Every night I erase data and I import a lot of new data.
> 
> For optimize my database I operate a vacuum "all" every night.
> 
> The problem is that the size of database is growing every day whereas
> the volume of data stay remains stable. After six month my postgreSQL
> databases size is approximately  (40/50 Gb).  Yesterday I suppress the
> database and I restore it by pg_dump. By this way my database size is
> gone down again to 4/5 Gb.
> 
> Is there any solution to reduce the size of the database without restore
> a SQL backup ?
> 
> Thanks to your help
> 
> Pascal PEYRE
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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-- 
Olleg Samoylov




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