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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:02:27 +0200
From: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>
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Subject: Re: SAN performance mystery
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Hi, Tim,

Seems I sent my message to fast, cut in middle of a sencence:

Markus Schaber wrote:
>> A pg_dump/pg_restore cycle reduced the total
>> database size from 81G to 36G.

> If you still have the original database around,

... can you check wether VACUUM FULL and REINDEX achieve the same effect?

Thanks,
Markus


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