Re: [ADMIN] Large files in main/base

2010-07-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Neuber, Dirk" writes: > One last question. After using vacuumlo the file size of 16385/2613 is > still the same as before. > It seems the content has been removed but the file itself hasn't been > compacted. > Is there an option or tool which can do this as well ? Yeah, you still need to apply V

Re: [ADMIN] Large files in main/base

2010-07-11 Thread Neuber, Dirk
> >> It is : postgres/8.3/main/base/16385/2613 > > > This is a system catalog, pg_largeobject, which holds > binary objects. If > > you use Large Objects, no wonder this table could be really big. > > Also worth noting is that there's no automatic deletion mechanism for > large objects. It coul

Re: [ADMIN] Large files in main/base

2010-07-10 Thread Tom Lane
Guillaume Lelarge writes: > Le 10/07/2010 12:43, Neuber, Dirk a écrit : >>> The exact name of the file might be useful information, too. >> >> It is : postgres/8.3/main/base/16385/2613 > This is a system catalog, pg_largeobject, which holds binary objects. If > you use Large Objects, no wonder t

Re: [ADMIN] Large files in main/base

2010-07-10 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
Le 10/07/2010 12:43, Neuber, Dirk a écrit : >>> What is it? > >> Why don't you tell us? > >> The exact name of the file might be useful information, too. > > It is : postgres/8.3/main/base/16385/2613 > This is a system catalog, pg_largeobject, which holds binary objects. If you use Large Objec

Re: [ADMIN] Large files in main/base

2010-07-10 Thread Neuber, Dirk
>> What is it? > Why don't you tell us? > The exact name of the file might be useful information, too. It is : postgres/8.3/main/base/16385/2613 Thanks. Ciao Dirk. DISCLAIMER: Unless indicated otherwise, the information contained in this message is privileged and confidential, and is intend

Re: [ADMIN] Large files in main/base

2010-07-09 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Henry, Frank wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We had a problem with one of our servers and had noticed that the > postgres/8.3/main folder had become quite large (>650mb). > PostgreSQL confirmed this via a query but when I queried the size of the > tables I was barely r

Re: [ADMIN] Large files in main/base

2010-07-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 15:31 +0200, Henry, Frank wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We had a problem with one of our servers and had noticed that the > postgres/8.3/main folder had become quite large (>650mb). > PostgreSQL confirmed this via a query but when I queried the size of the > tables I was barel

Re: [ADMIN] Large files in main/base

2010-07-09 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Marlowe writes: > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Henry, Frank wrote: >> What is it? > Why don't you tell us? The exact name of the file might be useful information, too. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [ADMIN] Large files in main/base

2010-07-09 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Henry, Frank wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We had a problem with one of our servers and had noticed that the > postgres/8.3/main folder had become quite large (>650mb). > PostgreSQL confirmed this via a query but when I queried the size of the > tables I was barely r

[ADMIN] Large files in main/base

2010-07-09 Thread Henry, Frank
Hello everyone, We had a problem with one of our servers and had noticed that the postgres/8.3/main folder had become quite large (>650mb). PostgreSQL confirmed this via a query but when I queried the size of the tables I was barely reaching 3mb. After looking around, I found one file with about