Re: Diagnosing a massive toast file

From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Diagnosing a massive toast file
Date: 2019-08-05 16:36:27
Message-ID: 3da6ffe8-28ef-fb9a-e6e8-1f0d243cc8e9@gmail.com
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On 8/5/19 11:32 AM, Wells Oliver wrote:
> Hi all, I have not seen this before, but one our toast tables has gotten
> to 15GB, the biggest table in the DB. I don't know why, is there some way
> I can diagnose what's causing this?
>
>  I don't think I've ever seen a toast table even half of this size, so
> it's concerning.

We've got *lots* of toast tables that big.  Are you asking how to find the
"human readable name" associated with the toast table?

And have you vacuumed it lately?

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