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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Index bloat of 4x
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:12:51 -0300
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Bill Moran wrote:

> The entire database was around 28M prior to the upgrades, etc.  Immediately
> after the upgrades, it was ~270M.  Following a vacuum full, it dropped to
> 165M.  Following a database-wide reindex, it dropped to 30M.

Oh, so it was clearly the upgrade procedure that caused the bloat ...
Reindexing seems the expected course.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support



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