Re: [GENERAL] Running vacuum after delete does not remove all space allocated

2010-03-31 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Chris Barnes wrote: > I have deleted the rows in a table and vacuumed full, there appears to be > space allocated that after a truncate it removes. > > Why is this? It's how PostgreSQL is designed. It recycles the space at a later time, after vacuum has reclaime

[GENERAL] Running vacuum after delete does not remove all space allocated

2010-03-31 Thread Chris Barnes
I have deleted the rows in a table and vacuumed full, there appears to be space allocated that after a truncate it removes. Why is this? \d t8000_us_ts_size_test_2d Table "dbprc001.t8000_us_ts_size_test_2d" Column | Type | Modifiers ---+---