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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:11:27 -0700
From: Dinesh Bhandary <dbhandary@iii.com>
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Subject: Re: Database size stays constant but disk space keeps shrinking
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You might also want to check to see if temp files are growing out of bounds.

Thanks.
Dinesh
On 9/27/2012 3:05 PM, Greg Williamson wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I have a postgres database, 9.1.3, which shows a fairly constant amount of space used by postgres, but total disk space kees shrinking.
> If I restart postgres the space on my file system returns.
>
> This cluster is replicated to another; that custer does not show this problem.
>
> There are two main databases on this cluster, both using logging. One is used to accumulate some stats on our systen.
>
> The other is a slimmed-down version of our production database, which gets recreated hourly by a shell script which pulls data from remote servers, does a pg_dump of the resulting 3 gig database, and then drops it.
>
> I posted a message about ths a few days and got no responses. I am hoping for better luck this time as this is a serious issue,not relayed t vacuuming or routine admin tasks which may or may not be happening.
>
> Thanks for any help / advice / things to look for.
>
> Greg
>
> a few details:
> db11:5432=# select version();
>                                                     version
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   PostgreSQL 9.1.3 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc-4.4.real (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) 4.4.3, 64-bit
>
> Says one of our sysads:
> "These are single disk systems. single no
> n-raid sata. Using xfs as the filesystem like the rest of the dbs."
>
>