I did look into VACUUM(full) for it’s PROCESS_TOAST option which makes sense, but the thing is I already had a cron-ed
VACUUM(full) which I ended up disabling a while back; exactly because of the double-space requirement.
The DB has already a 1TB size and occupying another 600MB would require some hassle. Thus, the external script approach
makesmore sense.
> On 17 Oct 2021, at 8:28 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:
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> On 10/17/21 10:17, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 5:12 PM Florents Tselai <florents.tselai@gmail.com <mailto:florents.tselai@gmail.com>>
wrote:
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>> Is there a smarter way to do this ?
>> It should be enough to VACUUM FULL the table. (but it has to be VACUUM FULL, not a regular vacuum). Or CLUSTER.
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> With the proviso that this will require double the existing space, ~670GB, until the operation is completed.
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