On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Stephen Scheck <singularsyntax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If this hypothesis is correct, doing a vacuum should free up dead pages and > your size expectations should be more accurate. And if that's the case > putting more intelligence into the application could mitigate some of the > update growth (predicting what page temporally similar updates will go to > and grouping them into a single transaction, for instance). > Seems correct to me, according to this http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/lo.html I would give a try to vacuumlo to see if the size decreases, in such case that is the right explaination. Luca -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general