Re: [HACKERS] Vacuum ignores large objects

> Is there a reason why vacuum won't vacuum large objects? AFAIK they
> are not really different from ordinary relations, and could be vacuumed
> the same way. If you do a lot of lo_writes to a large object, its file
> size grows without bound because of invalidated tuples, so it'd sure
> be nice for LOs to be vacuumable...
>
> Trying to force the issue doesn't work either:
>
> lotest=> vacuum xinv150337;
> NOTICE: Vacuum: can not process index and certain system tables
> VACUUM

Really. I thought they were just bit buckets. I didn't realize they
actually contain transaction id's and versions.

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