Re: Disk Space issue

Hi All,

I recreated my database this morning with a dump size of 3GB, which after database creation occupied 3.5GB on disk.
And in less than 8 hours it has bloated to additional 3.7GB (the disk size now is 7.2GB).

There are quite a few DML operations which are happening on my DB.

SELECT relname, relpages FROM pg_class ORDER BY relpages DESC;
relname | relpages
-------------------------------------------------------------+----------
< table1 > | 180676
< table2 > | 22828
< table3 > | 13469
< table4 > | 9174
< table5 > | 7246
< table6 > | 3865
< table7 > | 2384
< table8 > | 2013
< table9 > | 1836
< table10 > | 1356
< table11 > | 1349
< table12 > | 1025
< table13 > | 910
< table14 > | 896
< table15 > | 797
< table16 > | 708
< table17 > | 665
< table18 > | 601
< table19 > | 407
< table20 > | 374

Regards,
Devendra

-----Original Message-----
From: Praveen Kumar (TUV) [mailto:praveen(dot)k(at)renaissance-it(dot)com]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 June 2008 4:15 PM
To: Devendra Singh Rawat; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: [ADMIN] Disk Space issue

Hi,
I think you have a lot DML operation in your database and you are not
vacuuming your database . So try to execute command vacuum analyze
<<table name >>; in your schema where you are facing problem.

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Devendra Singh
Rawat
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:07 AM
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [ADMIN] Disk Space issue

Hi,

We are using PostgreSQL 7.4.5 and facing issues with increasing disk
space.

Here is some information about our configuration.

The data dump size is around 3 GB. And it is occupying around 120GB on
the disk. When we recreate the database from data dump it takes around
3.5GB of disk space.
But the database size increases by 1 GB daily though actual data added
maybe in KB. We are not able to decipher as to what is causing this
increase.

Suggestions on the likely problems will be appreciated.

Regards,
Devendra

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