Hello Eelco,

Wednesday, October 9, 2002, 6:56:04 AM, you wrote:

EvBIS> Since there are a lot of postgresql experts on this list i want to 
EvBIS> share a problem we have on this moment. We have a large DBMAIL 
EvBIS> installation with a postgresql backend. It stores about 10 Gbyte of 
EvBIS> mailinformation but postgresql seems to be using 4 times as many 
EvBIS> diskspace. How is this possible and can it be reduced? The first few 
EvBIS> weeks this size difference wasn't so big.
Try:
  VACUUM;
or better yet:
  VACUUM ANALYSE;
  
This is probably happening because you made a lot of I/O.
The second form will collect statistics so that your queries should be
optimized in the future.

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 Steve Howe                           mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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