On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Strahinja Kustudić <strahinjak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > For example, yesterday when I checked the database size on the production > server it was 30GB, and the restored dump of that database was only 17GB. > The most interesting thing is that the data wasn't bloated that much, but > the indices were. Some of them were a few times bigger than they should be. > For example an index on the production db is 440MB, while that same index > after dump/restore is 17MB, and there are many indices with that high > difference. Could your pattern of deletions be leaving sparsely populated, but not completely empty, index pages; which your insertions will then never reuse because they never again insert values in that key range? Cheers, Jeff -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
