am Fri, dem 08.06.2007, um 1:22:14 -0700 mailte choksi folgendes:
> Hi all,
>
> I had a database which uses to hold some 50 Mill records and disk
> space used was 103 GB. I deleted around 34 Mill records but still the
> disk size is same. Can some on please shed some light on this.
DELETE only mark rows as deleted, if you need the space you need a
VACUUM FULL.
Read more: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-vacuum.html
Andreas
--
Andreas Kretschmer
Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header)
GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net