Re: Autovacuum and pg_largeobject

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Norberto Delle <betodelle(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Autovacuum and pg_largeobject
Date: 2010-07-02 16:57:22
Message-ID: 1278089733-sup-1860@alvh.no-ip.org
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-general

Excerpts from Norberto Delle's message of vie jul 02 08:10:44 -0400 2010:
> Hi all
>
> I would like to know if the large object table pg_largeobject is
> routinely checked by the autovacuum daemon.
> I ask about this because I have a database in wich the pg_largeobject
> table is being forcibly vacuumed because it's relfrozenxid is now
> greater than autovacuum_freeze_max_age, and it's killing the server
> performance. PostgreSQL version is 8.2.14.

It should, as it should vacuum any other table. Perhaps all the routine
autovacuums were killed because of locking issues. I admit I haven't
investigated the locking behavior of pg_largeobject in particular.
Would it be locked more frequently than other system catalogs?

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-general by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Babu R 2010-07-02 17:28:23 Re: bulk insert using COPY and PHP code
Previous Message Tim 2010-07-02 16:22:45 ERROR: canceling statement due to statement timeout