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.
looks like the devs are on it.
After that commit my database dump went from around 1.1G to 260M