Re: unlink large objects

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Philip Crotwell <crotwell(at)seis(dot)sc(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: unlink large objects
Date: 2001-06-08 17:45:48
Message-ID: 10259.992022348@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Philip Crotwell <crotwell(at)seis(dot)sc(dot)edu> writes:
> I poked around in the database directory and found a file named 16948 that
> is 960Mb or almost all of the space on my partition.

That is pg_largeobject. Vacuuming should recover the lost space; are
you sure you've vacuumed it?

regards, tom lane

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