Vegard Bønes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with large objects in postgresql 8.1: The performance of
> loading large objects into a database goes way down after a few days of
> operation.
>
> I have a cron job kicking in twice a day, which generates and loads around
> 6000 large objects of 3.7MB each. Each night, old data is deleted, so
> there is never more than 24000 large object in the database.
> So, my question for you is: Why does this happen, and what can I do about it?
Try putting a "vacuumdb -zf" command as a cron job after the data is
deleted.