"=?iso-8859-1?Q?Vegard_B=F8nes?=" <vegard.bones@xxxxxx> writes: > I have a problem with large objects in postgresql 8.1: The performance of > loading large objects into a database goes way down after a few days of > operation. > I have a cron job kicking in twice a day, which generates and loads around > 6000 large objects of 3.7MB each. Each night, old data is deleted, so > there is never more than 24000 large object in the database. Are you sure you're deleting the large objects themselves (ie, lo_unlink), and not just deleting some references to them? A manual "vacuum verbose" on pg_largeobject might be informative. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance