# 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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> [@hosna](#):
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> What about user\_actions ? what is stored in this table that it has got so big? I have the same question about post\_timings and topic\_views too. The names indicate that these should be just a bunch of numbers. And shouldn’t take really this much space.

You can run a backup, download it, and analyze it locally. A pg\_dump is just a text file that is human readable and will let you check what exactly is in each table.

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