>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> Why was the db using that extra five plus gigs?
Tom> Smells like a hadn't-been-vacuuming-often-enough problem.
Sorry, I forgot to mention: autovacuum was enabled and I also ran
this script every night via cron:
#!/bin/bash
FULL=''
test $(date +%w) -eq 0 && FULL='FULL'
exec psql -U dbm -c "VACUUM ${FULL} VERBOSE ANALYZE" dbm
The app at least felt faster with the daily vacuum, even though
autovacuum was running. I don't have a good explanation for that,
either.
-JimC
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