Vick Khera wrote > On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 5:59 AM, pinker < > pinker@ > > wrote: > >> I have deleted a large number of records from my_table, which originally >> had >> 288 MB. Then I ran vacuum full to make the table size smaller. After this >> operation size of the table remains the same, despite of the fact that >> table >> > > If your remaining records were in say, block 2 and block 10000, then the > blocks in between won't be returned to the system. Really? This is vacuum full we are talking about. How would such a thing occur? The OP hasn't stated his version and I wouldn't assume 9.x I have no experience here but given recent versions rewrite the table the vacuum verbose output shown seems unusual. David J. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.nabble.com/VACUUM-FULL-doesn-t-reduce-table-size-tp5840782p5840897.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general