By MattBot
My database is using almost 10GB. My database backup is 500MB. I understand that the backup probably doesn’t contain indexes and other information. But I feel like 10GB is pretty large and maybe there is a way to vacuum the database?
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Hi there,
I could suggest trying to narrow down which database and tables are using most of the disk space. You could use the following queries:
- Check the size of a specific database:
SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('defaultdb'));
- Check the size of a specific table:
SELECT pg_size_pretty( pg_total_relation_size('table_name_here') );
Let me know how it goes!
Best,
Bobby
Hi there,
In addition to what has already been mentioned here, you can now add scalable storage to managed database clusters as shown in this video here:
Best,
Bobby
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