Re: Diagnosing a massive toast file

Wells Oliver <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.admin
Message-ID <CAOC+FBX1arTzF+_hx2WMsnOoF95gnnMZtNNkPUG+OKAERpisJg@mail.gmail.com>
Yeah, trying to figure out what actual table is clearly in need of a vacuum
b/c of the size of that toast table.

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 9:36 AM Ron <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?
>
> --
> Angular momentum makes the world go 'round.
>


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