Re: Deleting loid from the database - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: Deleting loid from the database
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Msg-id 20060304072047.GA91295@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to Deleting loid from the database  ("Md.Abdul Aziz" <aziz@students.iiit.net>)
Responses Re: Deleting loid from the database  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:08:52PM +0530, Md.Abdul Aziz wrote:
>     I am a presently working on a module which enhances postgre to 
> store audio files,while storing the aduido file in the databese i used 
> liod,now the problem is i am able to unlink but still the data is 
> present in the postgre database.can some one suggest me how to delete (not 
> unlink) large objects from the postgre databse.

"VACUUM FULL pg_largeobject" might be what you're looking for, but
if you're going to reload the data then an ordinary VACUUM (without
FULL) will free the space for re-use by PostgreSQL without shrinking
the file (unless the table has no live tuples, in which case the
file size will be zeroed).

-- 
Michael Fuhr


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