Re: Question about DB VACUUM - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Question about DB VACUUM
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Msg-id 12586.1065134741@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Question about DB VACUUM  ("Chris White (cjwhite)" <cjwhite@cisco.com>)
Responses Re: Question about DB VACUUM  ("Chris White (cjwhite)" <cjwhite@cisco.com>)
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"Chris White (cjwhite)" <cjwhite@cisco.com> writes:
> The index has grown by 4 pages and the table has grown by 10 pages. BTW,
> what is a page size? Why is this happening as this is the table that I
> am theoretically keeping the same size by adding/deleting the same
> objects from.

Kinda looks like you aren't doing anything to remove
no-longer-referenced large objects.  An LO is not a BLOB; it has an
independent existence.  You may care to look into
contrib/lo and/or contrib/vacuumlo.  Or possibly you should be using
wide text or bytea fields, not large objects at all...

            regards, tom lane

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