Re: How to keep pg_largeobject from growing endlessly

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 4:49 AM, Andreas Joseph Krogh
<andreas(at)visena(dot)com> wrote:
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> In other words: Does vacuumlo cause diskspace used by pg_largeobject to be freed to the OS (after eventually vacuumed by autovacuum)?

No.

But that shouldn't matter in your scenario: if you create more large
objects than you delete, you aren't wasting space anyway.

A longer-term problem that may apply in your scenario: pg_largeobject
can't grow beyond your tablespace's disk size. Unlike other tables,
it's very hard to move pg_largeobject to a new database/tablespace
without downtime. If your table is constantly growing and you're
worrying about how much space it's taking, other storage strategies
(bytea, S3, NFS, etc) might inspire more confidence. I had this
problem a few months ago; since then, I only use pg_largeobject in
prototyping and low-growth situations.
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Enjoy life,
Adam

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