From f6cbef633284aae14fee2781b9ea735fdc537765 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaron Raimist <aaron@raim.ist>
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 <aaron@raim.ist>
---
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
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