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I have a big table which needs a Vacuum full, but I don't have enough disk space. I was looking online and came across some: pg_repack, pg_squeeze, ...

Am I mistaken or are all these extensions Linux only? Are there similar extensions for Postgresql running on Windows? I'm looking for an extensions which can remove bloat (deleted tuples, ... ) from a table without locking the table like Vacuum full does.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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  • You probably need to see if you can compile any of those extensions on Windows. pgcompacttable is written in Perl, so maybe it runs on Windows as well
    – user1822
    Aug 7, 2022 at 18:47
  • I think those don't do what you want anyway, they still take up extra space while the table is being rewritten.
    – jjanes
    Aug 7, 2022 at 23:51
  • It is not obvious to me how to make pgcompacttable run on Windows, but you can at least run it from Linux but point it at a db server running on Windows.
    – jjanes
    Aug 8, 2022 at 0:04
  • In other words, mainly all extensions are linux only? That's a bummer. Only thing I can do is dump the table to an other server and restore it in production. But with a table of this size, I really don't know how long the dump / restore will take. I can't put them offline for days...
    – Morph
    Aug 9, 2022 at 7:15

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