Re: large objects & space usage

Kevin Kempter написа:
> Hi List;
>
> I'm engaging with a client who is trying to solve what sounds like a bloat
> issue. However in further conversations they told me this:
>
> 1) we have a table that is an integer key and a blob column
> 2) the table was at 30Gig, we went in and deleted the last 2 months of data
> and it's still at 30Gog
>
> At this point I thought bloat and that vacuum full or a table rebuild would
> fix the issue. However later they told me:
>
> 3) we did a pg_dump and a reload into a database on the test box and the table
> is still 30Gig.
>
> I haven't gotten access to their servers yet so I only have the above info
> however I wonder is there special space considerations or storage
> requirements, etc with blobs ?
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So what is it - large objects or BYTEA?

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Milen A. Radev