On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 08:32 -0500, akp geek wrote: > Thank you all for the suggestions. I did a vacuum and the size has > gone down drastically. But still it is not the same size as my master. > I am looking into it
Plain vacuum does not file system size of relations. It just marks dead spaces are writable. If you haven't vacuumed for a long time, it probably means that you have lots of space to be reused. -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer devrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.gunduz.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/devrimgunduz