Re: [JDBC] unlink large objects

2001-06-09 Thread Philip Crotwell
Hi I was vacuuming, but as the owner of the database. When I do that there are messages that should have clued me in, lke NOTICE: Skipping pg_largeobject --- only table owner can VACUUM it From now on I will vacuum as user postgres, but I wonder if there is a need for individual users to be

[JDBC] unlink large objects

2001-06-08 Thread Philip Crotwell
HI I am having trouble with a 7.1rc4 database filling up my disks. What I do is put a large number of small large objects of seismic data into the database in one process and use another process to unlink them after they reach a certain age to form a buffer. The unlink seems to be working, and

Re: [JDBC] unlink large objects

2001-06-08 Thread Tom Lane
Philip Crotwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I poked around in the database directory and found a file named 16948 that is 960Mb or almost all of the space on my partition. That is pg_largeobject. Vacuuming should recover the lost space; are you sure you've vacuumed it?