Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D68632F8E for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:58:28 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 30239-03 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:58:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sd-17937.dedibox.fr (sd-17937.dedibox.fr [88.191.100.74]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FE126325B6 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:58:20 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.10.3] (ASte-Genev-Bois-153-1-46-185.w83-200.abo.wanadoo.fr [83.200.28.185]) by sd-17937.dedibox.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7072D3B8F5; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:58:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C38605A.3010101@lelarge.info> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:58:18 +0200 From: Guillaume Lelarge User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); fr; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Neuber, Dirk" CC: Tom Lane , "Henry, Frank" , pgsql-admin@postgresql.org, Scott Marlowe Subject: Re: Large files in main/base References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201007/39 X-Sequence-Number: 35058 Le 10/07/2010 12:43, Neuber, Dirk a écrit : >>> What is it? > >> Why don't you tell us? > >> The exact name of the file might be useful information, too. > > It is : postgres/8.3/main/base/16385/2613 > This is a system catalog, pg_largeobject, which holds binary objects. If you use Large Objects, no wonder this table could be really big. -- Guillaume http://www.postgresql.fr http://dalibo.com