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From Wells Oliver
Subject Re: Diagnosing a massive toast file
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Msg-id CAOC+FBXyYOE1+90qNDMJ_0W6F6pPxdKTEYP4HG2xHgT9KzbE=w@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Diagnosing a massive toast file  (Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Diagnosing a massive toast file  (Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>)
Re: Diagnosing a massive toast file  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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As a follow up, n_dead_tup from pg_stat_sys_tables for this TOAST table is 7447444, live tuples, 623982, and tup_del 20823469. vacuum_count is 0.

Why can't I free those rows up?

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 10:00 AM Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@gmail.com> wrote:
Appreciate it, guys. I understand it being large isn't itself a problem, but relative to history and the lack of real changes, it's just strange and I'd like to better understand what is going on...

I tracked it down to a specific table, and then doing a VACUUM FULL ANALYZE on that table yields: 108765 dead row versions cannot be removed yet.

Which strikes me as odd. Any reading I can do to better understand why so many (relative to the overall table size) dead rows cannot be removed?


On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 9:49 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@gmail.com> writes:
> Yeah, trying to figure out what actual table is clearly in need of a vacuum
> b/c of the size of that toast table.

Something like

select relname from pg_class
where reltoastrelid = 'pg_toast.pg_toast_NNN'::regclass;

(or, if you have potential duplicate relnames, select oid::regclass ...)

The mere fact that it's big does not indicate a problem, though.

                        regards, tom lane


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