Re: Data Partition is Growing

Thanks. I'll investigate and let you know how things go....

Mike

Tom Lane wrote:

>Mike Darretta  writes:
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>>I'm an application developer trying to understand a pg data partition 
>>issue. We are storing large objects (gifs) at a rate of about 1GIG /day. 
>>After about a week, most of the objects are recycled -- that is, an 
>>insert triggers a delete of a similar object. The postgres data 
>>partition, though, continues to grow, even though the objects are 
>>successfully deleted from the application *and* largeobject tables.
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>You need to check your free-space-map settings --- it sounds like the
>FSM is not large enough to keep track of all the free space in
>pg_largeobject.
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>If you do a "vacuum verbose" across the whole database, the tail end of
>the (voluminous) printout will tell you something about where you need
>to set the FSM parameters.
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>			regards, tom lane
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