From f6cbef633284aae14fee2781b9ea735fdc537765 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aaron Raimist Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 12:37:56 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note saying you need to manually reclaim disk space People keep asking why their database hasn't gotten smaller after using this API. Signed-off-by: Aaron Raimist --- docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst b/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst index 2da833c827..a5c3dc8149 100644 --- a/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst +++ b/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst @@ -61,3 +61,11 @@ the following: } The status will be one of ``active``, ``complete``, or ``failed``. + +Reclaim disk space (Postgres) +----------------------------- + +To reclaim the disk space and return it to the operating system, you need to run +`VACUUM FULL;` on the database. + +https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-vacuum.html