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).
>