Hi You can use the CLUSTER command, which will physically reorder the table based on index, effectively reducing the size of the table without using VACUUM.
CLUSTER your_table USING your_index; Or you can use the pg_repack extension as well. pg_repack -d your_database -t your_table Regards Kashif Zeeshan On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 12:55 PM Shenavai, Manuel <manuel.shena...@sap.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > > I created a simple scenario to understand the handling of TOASTs > <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-toast.html>: There is an > empty database with a single table and record. The single record gets > updated multiple times with 10MB (bytea column). I can see that the > table/toasttable size is growing (500MB). > > > > Now I tried to find a way to get the DB size down again (it should be > around 10MB instead of 500MB). I don’t want to use VACUUM FULL due to the > exclusive lock. > > > > Is there any way to remove the dead tuples and free the pages? > > > > Thanks in advance & > > Best regards, > > Manuel > > >
