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
Appreicate your help
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Richard Huxton <d...@archonet.com> wrote:
> On 02/03/10 21:47, akp geek wrote:
>
>> I am doing a replication of one of the database and the size of the slave
>> database is growing exponentially . Right now the size of master db is
>> 849M
>> and the slave is 7GB.
>>
>
> my master is 8.3 and slave is 8.4
>>
>
> I'm guessing your slave isn't being vacuumed. Or, perhaps you have a
> long-running transaction on the slave that is preventing dead rows from
> being cleaned up.
>
> Two useful commands:
>
> vacuum verbose mytable;
>
> This will show you how many rows/pages can/should be cleaned up.
>
> SELECT pg_size_pretty( pg_total_relation_size('mytable') );
>
> This will show you the size of "mytable" (formatted nicely).
>
> --
> Richard Huxton
> Archonet Ltd
>
