# لماذا حجم discourse postgres\_data كبير جدًا؟

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-my-discourse-postgres-data-is-too-big/91657>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [5 يوليو 2018، 8:54م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-my-discourse-postgres-data-is-too-big/91657 "2018-07-05T20:54:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [5 يوليو 2018، 8:54م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-my-discourse-postgres-data-is-too-big/91657/1 "2018-07-05T20:54:31Z")

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Today I was evaluating my discourse server and found two weird things.

1- If I understand correctly, the discourse postgres\_data folder which is in /var/discourse/shared/standalone folder, is where discourse stores the database. Now this folder for my forum is about 8GB. Which I believe is too big for a humble forum. Can someone explain why its too big?

2- I have another folder named postgres\_data\_old that is also about 7GB. What is this for?

Also, my server memory was about 4GB. I found its mostly consumed. So I upgraded it to 8GB. Again I think a humble forum shouldn’t need that much of memory.

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