jan(at)evation(dot)com (Jan Branbergen) writes:
> in the proces of porting the data, i have created a lot of BLOBs, and
> in the next import run, i truncated the table which was referencing
> the BLOB ( so i did not do a pg_lounlink for the object ).
> this has happened numerous times, so i a worried about the following:
> have the BLOBs become "zombie"-BLOBs ( that is: are they still
> residing in my database ), or are they deleted with a VACUUM for
> example? i could not find this is in the manual.
They're zombies. See the contrib/vacuumlo program for some help
cleaning them out.
regards, tom lane