Re: Data Directory size increasing abnormally

utsav wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am using postgres 7.3 version on RHEL 4.0.
>
You should upgrade to a newer/the latest stable release
>
> The commanddata field consists of binary data of a txt file whose size
> is between 1kb to 4kb and there is a high frequecy of updates on this
> table (approx twice in a sec)
>
> A strange behaviour is observerd in the physical files with respect to
> this table. The size of the file is growing abnormally in GBs. Suppose
> the file name (/oid of relation /)with respect to the table is "18924" I
> could find entries of 1 GB files like 18924, 18924.1, 18924.2 ,
> 18924.3......18924.40 in the data directory, though there are on 10k
> records in the table.
> I have attached the of list command of the data directory.
> Kindly help me in finding , why this is happening because, the server is
> running out of space.

Are you vacuuming this DB, or any of it's tables, especially the table in question?
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Utsav Turray