Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 507B52E004C for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 11:09:12 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 47457-03 for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 11:08:51 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51A462E004A for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 11:09:00 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m4CE8uFt018955; Mon, 12 May 2008 10:08:56 -0400 (EDT) To: "James Farrugia" cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Orphan TOAST object In-reply-to: <8d01be800805120025u3a49fa39rc7033a2480b4982f@mail.gmail.com> References: <8d01be800805110946r792efacdp3dbe02829b6da7a9@mail.gmail.com> <20553.1210525788@sss.pgh.pa.us> <8d01be800805111017w6910acdapaf66f0b56908d36e@mail.gmail.com> <20763.1210526763@sss.pgh.pa.us> <8d01be800805120025u3a49fa39rc7033a2480b4982f@mail.gmail.com> Comments: In-reply-to "James Farrugia" message dated "Mon, 12 May 2008 09:25:34 +0200" Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 10:08:55 -0400 Message-ID: <18954.1210601335@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200805/91 X-Sequence-Number: 29175 "James Farrugia" writes: > One last thing...can we run into data-loss problems with successfully > vacuumed tables even if there is one unvacuumed database object; what would > have happened if I ignored to vacuum that rogue pg_toast (which was the only > unvacuumed object within the entire database)? The database would have shut down when you got to the 2-billion-transactions mark. So you'd have had to solve the problem sooner or later anyway. regards, tom lane