From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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To: | alvaro(at)audifarma(dot)com(dot)co |
Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: SOS ---- Could you help me with postgresql.....???? |
Date: | 2004-03-19 14:48:33 |
Message-ID: | 20040319064650.B75424@megazone.bigpanda.com |
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On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 alvaro(at)audifarma(dot)com(dot)co wrote:
> Recently We Update our Postgresql database server by installing Postgresql
> 7.4.1, we followed the basic installation steps that appear in the install
> file, everything was fine till this morning when we realize that the
> partition (/var) where we storage the data (/var/lib/pgsql/data) was full,
> this partition is 30GB size!!! could you belive it????. When we checkout
> the size of the data directory it was 28GB, at the end it was imposible
> for us to startup the database normally so we have to remove the
> /var/lib/pgsql/data directory, and restore the db from a previous backup
> made with (pg_dumpall) and this time the /var/lib/pgsql/data was 8GB size
> that is a more accurate size for our database.
>
> Well till now the story goes to good..
>
> BUT I've been the whole morning monitoring (df -v or df -h) the size of
> the partition (/var) and is growing up every moment by a rate of 6kb to
> 8kb at 11:00 am it was 8GB and now 14:00 is 8.9GB (what a hell is going
> on????) if things goes like this next week I'm gonna have the same problem
> that today ... please help me
Does a vacuum full verbose lower the space taken? If so, can you post its
output?
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