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From: Rui DeSousa <rui@crazybean.net>
To: Mariel Cherkassky <mariel.cherkassky@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: size of table + toasted tables + indexes != pg_total_relation_size
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 14:49:57 -0500
Message-ID: <8EFF8B0B-6CDA-41A7-B059-AD2E5D7701CE@crazybean.net> (raw)
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> On Nov 4, 2018, at 5:14 AM, Mariel Cherkassky <mariel.cherkassky@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> local dba used to run vacuum full on a daily basis


Shouldn’t be doing vacuum fulls; that’s just bad db management.  Autovacuum/vacuum and normal turnover rate should be enough; otherwise you server is mostly not sized correctly.






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