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List:       pgsql-performance
Subject:    Re: [PERFORM] Less rows -> better performance?
From:       "Guillaume Smet" <guillaume.smet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-07-21 11:32:37
Message-ID: 1d4e0c10807210432v45c6272awb1ea13974747de54 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Andreas Hartmann <andreas@apache.org> wrote:
> SELECT pg_database.datname,
> pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(pg_database.datname)) AS size
> FROM pg_database where pg_database.datname = 'vvz_live_1';
>
>    datname    |  size
> ---------------+---------
>  vvz_live_1    | 2565 MB
>
> I wonder why the actual size is so much bigger than the data-only dump - is
> this because of index data etc.?

More probably because the database is totally bloated. Do you run
VACUUM regularly or did you set up autovacuum?

-- 
Guillaume

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