On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
I'm finding it very strange that my pg takes 9Giga on disk but pg_dumpall produces a 250Mega dump. 'VACUUM FULL' was executed yesterday.
If you've been running VACUUM FULL, it's probably so-called "index bloat". Try running the query at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Disk_Usage to figure out where all your space has gone inside the database.
-- * Greg Smith gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
