Re: pg_toast table growth out of control - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jeffrey W. Baker
Subject Re: pg_toast table growth out of control
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Msg-id 1015882729.31887.20.camel@heat
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In response to Re: pg_toast table growth out of control  (Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>)
Responses Re: pg_toast table growth out of control
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On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 13:30, Jan Wieck wrote:

>     The  best cure for a problem is avoiding it.  I would suggest
>     running the light  weight  VACUUM  more  often,  so  that  it
>     doesn't grow that big in the first place.

I think everybody is missing my point.  This entire database is vacuumed
every HOUR.  All the tables are reasonably sized, and they stay that
way.  Except, the magic pg_toast table where long objects from resp_body
are store is growing and growing and growing and growing and does not
seem to respond to VACUUM whatsoever.

-jwb


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