Re: Deleting loid from the database
Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
Cc: "Md.Abdul Aziz" <aziz@students.iiit.net>, postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2006-03-05T13:54:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
contrib/vacuumlo perhaps? Michael Fuhr wrote: > On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:08:52PM +0530, Md.Abdul Aziz wrote: >> I am a presently working on a module which enhances postgre to >> store audio files,while storing the aduido file in the databese i used >> liod,now the problem is i am able to unlink but still the data is >> present in the postgre database.can some one suggest me how to delete (not >> unlink) large objects from the postgre databse. > > "VACUUM FULL pg_largeobject" might be what you're looking for, but > if you're going to reload the data then an ordinary VACUUM (without > FULL) will free the space for re-use by PostgreSQL without shrinking > the file (unless the table has no live tuples, in which case the > file size will be zeroed). >