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From Adam Hooper
Subject Re: How to keep pg_largeobject from growing endlessly
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In response to Re: How to keep pg_largeobject from growing endlessly  (Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas@visena.com>)
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Andreas Joseph Krogh
<andreas@visena.com> wrote:
>
> På onsdag 15. april 2015 kl. 15:50:36, skrev Adam Hooper <adam@adamhooper.com>:
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 4:49 AM, Andreas Joseph Krogh
> <andreas@visena.com> wrote:
> >
> > In other words: Does vacuumlo cause diskspace used by pg_largeobject to be freed to the OS (after eventually
vacuumedby autovacuum)? 
>
> No.
>
> 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.)

Enjoy life,
Adam

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