Re: Size of the Postgres DB

From: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: "Yannick ALLUSSE" <yannick(dot)allusse(at)kisbv(dot)com>, <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Size of the Postgres DB
Date: 2002-03-08 16:26:05
Message-ID: web-821430@davinci.ethosmedia.com
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Yannick,

> I would like to know if I can reduce the size of the database at
> creating
> time, cause mine is empty and is 20 MO!!

Um ... do you mean 20MB?

To shrink a PostgreSQL database down to its most reasonable size: Run
VACUUM. That's what it's for.

-Josh

P.S. Since when is 20MB a huge database?

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