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From: Daniel Schuchardt <daniel_schuchardt@web.de>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Vacuum Question
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 13:19:16 +0100
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References: <000001c2d97d$b11814c0$e3026b83@intranet.cir.fr>

Do a VACUUM FULL on your database. This should be the solution.

Daniel


""Pascal PEYRE"" <peyre@cir.fr> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> 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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>
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>
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