Re: [ADMIN] Space occupied by Postgres index.

2010-11-30 Thread Kevin Grittner
"Shridhar Polas" wrote: > In my test setup I found that the disk space consumed by Postgers > is not getting declined even after deleting records from tables, > if I do not perform VACUUM FULL and REINDEX. True, but if you expect the tables to grow again it's generally better to leave the spac

Re: [ADMIN] Space occupied by Postgres index.

2010-11-30 Thread Kenneth Marshall
November 30, 2010 10:59 PM > To: Shridhar Polas > Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Space occupied by Postgres index. > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:56:53PM +0530, Shridhar Polas wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I am facing a proble

Re: [ADMIN] Space occupied by Postgres index.

2010-11-30 Thread Shridhar Polas
[mailto:k...@rice.edu] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 10:59 PM To: Shridhar Polas Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Space occupied by Postgres index. On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:56:53PM +0530, Shridhar Polas wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am facing a problem where indexes

Re: [ADMIN] Space occupied by Postgres index.

2010-11-30 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:56:53PM +0530, Shridhar Polas wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am facing a problem where indexes creates on some tables are occupying > huge space on disk and it seems to me that this space is not getting > reclaimed even when there are very few record in an associated table. >

[ADMIN] Space occupied by Postgres index.

2010-11-30 Thread Shridhar Polas
Hi, I am facing a problem where indexes creates on some tables are occupying huge space on disk and it seems to me that this space is not getting reclaimed even when there are very few record in an associated table. When I ran full vacuum the disk space was reclaimed occupied by tables but