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Subject: Re: server space increasing very fast but transaction are very low
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From: Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mnc.ch>
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Richard Huxton <dev 'at' archonet.com> writes:

> I'm guessing what you've got is a table that's not being vacuumed
> because you've had a transaction that's been open for weeks.

Or because no vacuuming at all is performed on this table (no
autovacuum and no explicit VACUUM on database or table).

-- 
Guillaume Cottenceau