EDIT: With thanks to u/code@lemmy.mayes.io, I have a solution for cleaning up the one table that is growing ridiculously in size and that is the activity table. A TRUNCATE activity;
command cleaned that right up. A word of caution is in order because the Lemmy instance must be shutdown completely and only the postgres container running if you’re using docker.
As a new Lemmy admin, I think I really need to learn PostgreSQL administration because I need a way to keep my database from ballooning in size and there are no management tools built yet for it. Would someone be so kind as to recommend a good website for learning PostgreSQL? This would also help me maintain my mastodon instance.
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Look at vacumn command. Also dbeaver is a teally good gui tool. Right now there is one table thats the main cause (i think its called activity but dont quote me on that there was a post about it)
That table is mainly for debugging as it logs every action in activitypub your instance does. I truncate it once a week and vacumn it (shrinks the disk space used). Caution. You must shut down lemmy before doing so. I run containers so i stop all except postgres and clean it up.
Yeah, that worked magically!
You are exactly correct about that one table. It is like 90% of the space. When I ran the vacuum I did not shutdown Lemmy. Now I know.
Really ugly, but really works. Connect to psql and run:
That will show the top 3 database tables sizes. I bet you number one is
activity
.looks like the devs are on it.
After that commit my database dump went from around 1.1G to 260M