Ok, that's what I suspected. Now I know. Thanks
Regards,
Patrik Kudo
dima wrote:
> postgres creates a new file (called .1, .2 etc) when the size of the
> previous one gets larger than 1GB (as you can see in your ls output)
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>> I have a database in production with a lot of large objects happening.
>> A while ago we noticed that the database directory contained two files
>> with the name of the pg_largeobject oid, of which one had the sufix
>> ".1". Is this a valid file? Is the table paged when reaching a certain
>> size or is it some kind of lost transaction/sort file? I noticed that
>> the timestamp of the file both are from today so I guess they should
>> both be there... I just want to make sure =)
>>
>> More info:
>>
>> select version();
>> version
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on i386-portbld-freebsd4.4, compiled by GCC 2.95.3
>>
>>
>> select relname from pg_class where oid = 16404;
>> relname
>> ----------------
>> pg_largeobject
>>
>> # ls -l|sort +4 -n |tail -n2
>> -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 465461248 Aug 28 09:20 16404.1
>> -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 1073741824 Aug 28 01:08 16404
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