Re: db grows and grows

Thanks for all pointers to REINDEX. Seems to work perfectly now.

Greetings,
Bjoern

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bjoern Metzdorf" <bm(at)turtle-entertainment(dot)de>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 4:28 PM
Subject: [GENERAL] db grows and grows

> Hi,
>
> I have a 3 GB (fs based) large pgdata directory. I regularly do vacuums
> every 15 minutes and vacuums with analyzing every night.
>
> After dumping the whole db (pg_dump -c db), dropping and creating the db,
> reinserting the dump and vacuuming again, my pgdata directory only
contains
> 1 GB. The dump had no errors, all data has been saved and reinserted.
>
> The xlogs/clogs didnt take up 2 GB, so I am wondering what has happened.
>
> Shouldn't the vacuuming take care of this?
>
> A (desired) sideeffect is, that the postmaster runs much faster now.
Queries
> get executed much faster.
>
> If I compare the relpages from before and after, I see the difference
there
> also.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Greetings,
> Bjoern
>
>
>
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