Postgres: The Unexpected Find That Freed 20GB of Unused Index Space

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  1. postgres_dba

    The missing set of useful tools for Postgres DBAs and all engineers

    In a similar vein, I got good value from these scripts:

    https://github.com/NikolayS/postgres_dba

    I managed to free 10% a.k.a about 100 GB of storage by reorganizing table column ordering in a big table.

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