Is your database growing at a rapid rate? Does your database system slow down all the time? And maybe you have trouble understanding why this happens? Maybe it is time to take a look at pg_squeeze and fix your database once and for all. pg_squeeze has been designed to shrink your database tables without downtime. […]

By Kaarel Moppel – Auto-rebuild bloated tables with pg_squeeze: One of the few areas where out-of-the-box functionality by PostgreSQL is not 100% satisfying, is the “bloat problem”. Combating bloat, or just trying to ensure that your table data is physically ordered according to some column(s) (a.k.a. clustering) required accepting some inconvenient compromises until now. Extended […]