Thank you Igor, I was able to eliminate the 15GB bloating for a 35GB table size , only after I restart the Pg server with one single connections and run a full vacuum for table.
Isabella On 10/01/18 11:10 AM, Igor Neyman wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Isabella Ghiurea [mailto:isabella.ghiurea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 10:48 AM To: pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: PG 9.5 2 tables same DDL with diff size Attention: This email was sent from someone outside of Perceptron. Always exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links from unknown senders or when receiving unexpected emails. I run full vacuum and reindex on largest table (50GB) while there was no server activities so I assume no transaction was holding a lock on table since the full vacuum was able to run, anything where I should consider looking ? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yes, in pg_stat_activity look for idle transactions that started long time ago. To prevent vacuum from doing its job they don't need to lock the table, they could just prevent from cleaning "old" row versions. Regards, Igor Neyman