Re: [GENERAL] Table seems empty but its size is in gigabytes

[John R Pierce]

On 4/12/2016 9:16 AM, David G. Johnston wrote:

    Now my big table statistics shows tuples inserted and its size is
    in order of gigabytes, but a simple SELECT has no rows, is there
    any way to recover the data in this table?


​Do you want to recover the dead data or the space ​that it consumes?

to free the disk space, use...

    vacuum full tablename;

I don't know how to reclaim tuples that were written but rolled back.

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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz