From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Diagnosing a massive toast file
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 11:36:27 -0500
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On 8/5/19 11:32 AM, Wells Oliver wrote:
> Hi all, I have not seen this before, but one our toast tables has gotten
> to 15GB, the biggest table in the DB. I don't know why, is there some way
> I can diagnose what's causing this?
>
> I don't think I've ever seen a toast table even half of this size, so
> it's concerning.
We've got *lots* of toast tables that big. Are you asking how to find the
"human readable name" associated with the toast table?
And have you vacuumed it lately?
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