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| author | Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-11-19 14:19:51 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-11-19 14:19:51 +0100 |
| commit | 65b793c5a195ea7cb1621a7bf05d92fb18706f66 (patch) | |
| tree | 14a7957d2e6161bbfbc8214ea4cdb444ca9c3725 | |
| parent | Merge pull request #4193 from kivikakk/add-openbsd-prereq (diff) | |
| parent | Add changelog (diff) | |
| download | synapse-65b793c5a195ea7cb1621a7bf05d92fb18706f66.tar.xz | |
Merge pull request #4200 from aaronraimist/vacuum-full-note
Add a note saying you need to manually reclaim disk space
| -rw-r--r-- | changelog.d/4200.misc | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst | 8 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/changelog.d/4200.misc b/changelog.d/4200.misc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..505c98edcf --- /dev/null +++ b/changelog.d/4200.misc @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Add a note saying you need to manually reclaim disk space after using the Purge History API 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 |