# Perché il mio discourse postgres\_data è troppo grande

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**Created:** [5 Luglio 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-my-discourse-postgres-data-is-too-big/91657 "2018-07-05T20:54:31Z")\
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I followed your suggestion and downloaded and extracted the backup. it was about 2GB. Is it normal that its 1/4 of what discourse reports?

Btw I realized that a huge amount of data is for excessive number of inactive users. Its more than 100k. Is there an automatic way for deleting all these users? they don’t have any post or other things that might break the process.

If there is no automatic way, If I remove them with api call, does it also clear all information related to them from database?

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