Re: [GENERAL] database 1.2G, pg_dump 73M?!

2008-03-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 22:59 +0100, Joris Dobbelsteen wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: Ross Boylan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Sunday, 30 March 2008 23:43 > >To: Joris Dobbelsteen > >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pgsql-general@postgresql.org > >

Re: [GENERAL] database 1.2G, pg_dump 73M?!

2008-03-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 21:22 +0200, Joris Dobbelsteen wrote: > From the top contenders, about half are indexes, so you are stuck > with > ~200 MB of data in the tables. > Postgresql has some wasted space due to placement of the tuples in a > block and overhead for each block and row. I don't kno

Re: [GENERAL] database 1.2G, pg_dump 73M?!

2008-03-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 20:27 +0200, Joris Dobbelsteen wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > I have a postgres server for which du reports > > 1188072 /var/lib/postgresql/8.2/main > > on Linux system. > > The server has only one real database, which is for bacula. When I

[GENERAL] database 1.2G, pg_dump 73M?!

2008-03-30 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a postgres server for which du reports 1188072 /var/lib/postgresql/8.2/main on Linux system. The server has only one real database, which is for bacula. When I dump the database, it's 73Mg. This is immediately after I did a full vacuum and restarted the server. Also, bacula=> SELECT reln