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From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Deteriorating performance when loading large objects
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:17:47 +0100
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Vegard Bønes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem with large objects in postgresql 8.1: The performance of
> loading large objects into a database goes way down after a few days of
> operation.
> 
> I have a cron job kicking in twice a day, which generates and loads around
> 6000 large objects of 3.7MB each. Each night, old data is deleted, so
> there is never more than 24000 large object in the database.

> So, my question for you is: Why does this happen, and what can I do about it?

Try putting a "vacuumdb -zf" command as a cron job after the data is
deleted.

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