Hi Joshua,
We used Vacuum Full but were not successful. The reclaimed disk space was only few MB.
I did not get to which version I need to update my Postgres.
Regards,
Devendra
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 June 2008 9:55 AM
To: Devendra Singh Rawat
Cc: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Disk Space issue
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 09:36 +1000, Devendra Singh Rawat wrote:
> 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.
You are likely not vacuuming nearly enough.
I would also suggest strongly you update to the latest 7.4 dot release.
Joshua D. Drake
>
> Regards,
> Devendra
>
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