Re: reducing postgresql disk space

From: Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: paladine <yasinmalli(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: reducing postgresql disk space
Date: 2010-05-26 14:37:36
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On 26 May 2010 15:16, paladine <yasinmalli(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> How can I reduce disk space postgresql used ?
> I tried to delete many rows from my database and
> I am running ' vacuum analyze reindexdb ' commands regularly
> but my disk space on my linux machine didn't reduce.
>
> I know that ' vacuum full ' command can do that but I don't want to use
> that command because of the disadvantages.
>
> Anyone know another method ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
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What have you got checkpoint_segments set to in your postgresql.conf
file? And how big is your database cluster?

Thom

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