Re: Index size growing

Hi,

I am not doing vacuum atall.

Prasad

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:06 PM, scorpdaddy(at)hotmail(dot)com <
scorpdaddy(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:

> How recent is the vacuum in this DB?
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> From: "Rajendra prasad" <rajendra(dot)dn(at)gmail(dot)com>
> Date: Thu, Mar 31, 2011 11:01 pm
> Subject: [ADMIN] Index size growing
> To: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
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> Hi,
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> I have 50 GB data base folder for postgres. Out of 50 GB 20 GB has been
> occupied by 8 indexes of a single table by growing upto 2 GB each. I
> googled
> and got the info that reindex will help brining back the actual size of the
> index. But the disk has only 4 GB left . Due to this, when i run reindex it
> is getting almost full. I don't know exactly why it is growing like that
> during reindex. Due to this i am not able to complete the reindex and see
> if
> i get back the disk spacce. Please suggest me a good solution and the way
> that i am doing is logical or not.
>
> Regards,
> Rajendra
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