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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:44:12 +0200
From: Adrian Moisey <adrian@careerjunction.co.za>
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Hi

>> the live one is 113G
>> the restored one is 78G
 >
>     Good news for you is that you know that you can do something ;)

:)

Will this help with performance ?

>     Now, is the bloat in the tables (which tables ?) or in the indexes 
> (which indexes ?), or in the toast tables perhaps, or in the system 
> catalogs or all of the above ? Or perhaps there is a long-forgotten 
> process that got zombified while holding a huge temp table ? (not very 
> likely, but who knows).
>     Use pg_relation_size() and its friends to get an idea of the size of 
> stuff.

I'll look into that, thanks

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