tl;dr: it looks like there are about 10GB of data reported by rake db:stats, but postgres_data is taking up 18GB. Does it seem likely that there are 8GB of indexes taking up the rest of the space, or is there some kind of cleanup that needs to be done? Longer version of the same question The postgr…

Thanks. Is this what I’m looking for? I don’t think I see a restore schema, but I’m not quite sure what I’m looking for. List of relations Schema Name Type Owner public api_keys table discourse public application_requests table discourse public ar_internal_metadata tabl…

Is that giant inline table really necessary?

Our Discourse post-timings table size is about 17GB. Is this normal? table_name row_estimate table_size index_size total_size post_timings 120967448 6676 MB 10 GB 17 GB posts 3616224 2413 MB 3219 MB 5632 MB user_actions 15159571 1215 MB 3699 MB 4914 MB post_search_data 3531969 3756 MB …

Yes, that is the largest table in any active Discourse site, with one of the indexes on it taking most of the space. We will rollout an update to PostgreSQL this year that will make it take half that space, so stay tuned :wink:

La base de données semble inexplicablement volumineuse

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Falco (Falco) Janvier 12, 2018, 7:43 2

You may have a restore schema with tables, try list those with psql.

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