Re: frustration with database size <long>

On 20.01.02 05:12 -0800(+0000), Andrew Gould wrote:
> The process above resulted in an **increase** in
> database size from 12GB to 14GB.
> 
> I'm both surprised and stumped.  Obviously, there's
> much I'm not understanding about COPY, vacuumdb and
> database size.
> 
> Does anyone have any guidance?
> 
Which files are taking up the space? Just look inside the
database directory. The files are named by oids. One
suspect is indexes, which may result in space loss.

- Einar Karttunen