On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 12:43 -0700, Vlad Kosilov wrote: > ./data/ you may want to exclude those. I find this query useful for > something like this as well: > > select datname,pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(oid)) from pg_database ; > Hello Vlad, I ran your query and I got the 9Gigas! I guess it should be related to index bloating, then. Do you agree ? thx Joao postgres=# select datname,pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(oid)) from pg_database; datname | pg_size_pretty ---------------+---------------- postgres | 3617 kB egbert | 9585 MB asterisk | 3993 kB turba | 3673 kB edgereporting | 3617 kB template1 | 3617 kB template0 | 3537 kB (7 rows) postgres=# > V. > > Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > 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. > > > > Is this normal ? Should I be worried ? > > > > > > details bellow: > > ------------------------------------------ > > # pg_dumpall --oids --clean > pg_dumpall.sql > > # ls -lh > > total 232M > > -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres 231M Aug 11 15:46 > > pg_dumpall.sql > > # du -sh /var/pgsql/data/ > > 9.4G /var/pgsql/data > > ------------------------------------------ > > > > > > thx > > joao > > > > > > > > > > >