Re: How to keep pg_largeobject from growing endlessly

From: Adam Hooper <adam(at)adamhooper(dot)com>
To: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas(at)visena(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to keep pg_largeobject from growing endlessly
Date: 2015-04-15 14:05:22
Message-ID: CAMWjz6HUbx7E76KFeP7HPn_+GNrbykYSaz_2sj2pCVZXuHg_3g@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Andreas Joseph Krogh
<andreas(at)visena(dot)com> wrote:
>
> På onsdag 15. april 2015 kl. 15:50:36, skrev Adam Hooper <adam(at)adamhooper(dot)com>:
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 4:49 AM, Andreas Joseph Krogh
> <andreas(at)visena(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > In other words: Does vacuumlo cause diskspace used by pg_largeobject to be freed to the OS (after eventually vacuumed by autovacuum)?
>
> No.
>
> Ok. Out of curiousity; When does it get freed, when VACUUM FULL'ed?

Yes. VACUUM FULL or CLUSTER will free the space. (Of course, you need
a lot of free disk space to perform those operations.)

Enjoy life,
Adam

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