Is there a reason why vacuum won't vacuum large objects?  AFAIK they
are not really different from ordinary relations, and could be vacuumed
the same way.  If you do a lot of lo_writes to a large object, its file
size grows without bound because of invalidated tuples, so it'd sure
be nice for LOs to be vacuumable...

Trying to force the issue doesn't work either:

lotest=> vacuum xinv150337;
NOTICE:  Vacuum: can not process index and certain system tables
VACUUM

			regards, tom lane

Thu, 03 Jun 1999 18:04:53 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Vacuum ignores large objects
> Is there a reason why vacuum won't vacuum large objects?  AFAIK they
> are not really different from ordinary relations, and could be vacuumed
> the same way.  If you do a lot of lo_writes to a large object, its file
> size grows without bound because of invalidated tuples, so it'd sure
> be nice for LOs to be vacuumable...
> 
> Trying to force the issue doesn't work either:
> 
> lotest=> vacuum xinv150337;
> NOTICE:  Vacuum: can not process index and certain system tables
> VACUUM

Really.  I thought they were just bit buckets.  I didn't realize they
actually contain transaction id's and versions.

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Thu, 3 Jun 1999 22:01:19 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: [HACKERS] Vacuum ignores large objects

Added to TODO:

        o Allow large object vacuuming


> Is there a reason why vacuum won't vacuum large objects?  AFAIK they
> are not really different from ordinary relations, and could be vacuumed
> the same way.  If you do a lot of lo_writes to a large object, its file
> size grows without bound because of invalidated tuples, so it'd sure
> be nice for LOs to be vacuumable...
> 
> Trying to force the issue doesn't work either:
> 
> lotest=> vacuum xinv150337;
> NOTICE:  Vacuum: can not process index and certain system tables
> VACUUM
> 
> 			regards, tom lane
> 
> 


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Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:57:35 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: [HACKERS] Vacuum ignores large objects