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Old 04-19-2008, 10:46 AM
Adrian Moisey
 
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Default Re: db size

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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