Re: Less rows -> better performance?

Guillaume Smet schrieb:
> 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?

Thanks for the hint!

I just verified that the autovacuum property is enabled. I did the
following to prepare the tests:

- setup two test databases, let's call them db_all and db_current
- import the dump from the live DB into both test DBs
- delete the old semester data from db_current, leaving only the current
data

Both test DBs were 600 MB large after this. I did a VACUUM FULL ANALYZE
on both of them now. db_all didn't shrink significantly (only 1 MB),
db_current shrunk to 440 MB. We're using quite a lot of indexes, I guess
that's why that much data are allocated.

-- Andreas

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