På onsdag 15. april 2015 kl. 16:05:22, skrev Adam Hooper <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Andreas Joseph Krogh
<andreas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> På onsdag 15. april 2015 kl. 15:50:36, skrev Adam Hooper <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 4:49 AM, Andreas Joseph Krogh
> <andreas@xxxxxxxxxx> 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)?
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> No.
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> Ok. Out of curiousity; When does it get freed, when VACUUM FULL'ed?
Yes. VACUUM FULL or CLUSTER will free the space. (Of course, you need
a lot of free disk space to perform those operations.)
I'm sure there's a good reason for why VACUUM FULL needs to rewreite the whole table and cannot "just free the unused space to the OS".
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