Re: is this normal?

Lee Wu wrote:

>How do you do dump? With compressness?
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I used "pg_dump -o dbname"

>Do you have a lot of dead tuples/index entries?
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How can I check this and remove them?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
>[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Chuming Chen
>Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 7:27 AM
>To: pgsql-admin list
>Subject: [ADMIN] is this normal?
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>Dear all,
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>I have a postgresql database.
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>"du -ks /var/lib/pgsql/data" gives me the following disk usage
>45592808    /var/lib/pgsql/data (about 44G)
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>But after I did a pg_dump, the dump file only has the size of 5.9 G.
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>Thank you for your kind reply and comments.
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