Re: When are largobject records TOASTed into pg_toast_2613?

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Thomas Boussekey <thomas(dot)boussekey(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: When are largobject records TOASTed into pg_toast_2613?
Date: 2020-08-22 03:50:49
Message-ID: 1a350fd7b5666decbeaa2a37902daa228fa405b3.camel@cybertec.at
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On Fri, 2020-08-21 at 18:59 +0200, Thomas Boussekey wrote:
> I wrote this BASH script to remove the TOAST table, if it may help anyone:
>
> [...]
> toast_pages="$(psql -U postgres --dbname=${database_name} -At --no-psqlrc -c "select relpages from pg_class where relname = 'pg_toast_2613';" )"
> toast_tuples="$(psql -U postgres --dbname=${database_name} -At --no-psqlrc -c "select reltuples from pg_class where relname = 'pg_toast_2613';" )"
> [...]

That are just the estimates.
You need to ascertain that the table is *really* empty.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com

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