BUG #15939: Postgres database size is growing due to oraphan objects

Hi!

On 05/08/2019 11:15, PG Bug reporting form wrote:

We have SSO based web login portal. Below is the our architecture details.

User---> Load balancer(vADC)---> Tomcat Server 7.0.19(Web Server) ---> Load
Balancer (vADC) -->
Jboss EAP 6.2(Application Server) --> Postgres 9.3 (Database)

PostgreSQL 9.3 is very old, and is no longer supported. You should
upgrade, although I doubt it would help with this particular problem.

Here Postgres will receive user request from jboss server for login. We
found that each time when users logged out of system orphan objects are
generating which is causing database growth. We checked our database tables
which having column type is OID/bytea. We found that there are only two
tables which is having column type OID/bytea. Surprisingly , These tables
dont have any data(Only two rows in each tables). These tables are not
generating any orphan objects(LO objects). Orphan objects are stored in
pg_largeobjects table. Due to orphan objects, size of pg_largeobject is
growing hence db so. We want to implement trigger based deletion of orphan
objects ( LO objects) . But for that we have to know which application
tables are generating orphan objects. How to identify application tables
which are generating orphan objects. Kindly guide.

I don't quite understand where those Large Objects are coming from, if
you're not using them in your application. Perhaps the JDBC driver is
creating them behind your back? Enabling statement logging might give a
clue (log_statement=all).

There's a contrib module called 'vacuumlo' that might help you to clean
them up, see https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/vacuumlo.html.

- Heikki

On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 at 16:29, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:

Hi!

On 05/08/2019 11:15, PG Bug reporting form wrote:

We have SSO based web login portal. Below is the our architecture

details.

User---> Load balancer(vADC)---> Tomcat Server 7.0.19(Web Server) --->

Load

Balancer (vADC) -->
Jboss EAP 6.2(Application Server) --> Postgres 9.3 (Database)

PostgreSQL 9.3 is very old, and is no longer supported. You should
upgrade, although I doubt it would help with this particular problem.

Here Postgres will receive user request from jboss server for login. We
found that each time when users logged out of system orphan objects are
generating which is causing database growth. We checked our database

tables

which having column type is OID/bytea. We found that there are only two
tables which is having column type OID/bytea. Surprisingly , These tables
dont have any data(Only two rows in each tables). These tables are not
generating any orphan objects(LO objects). Orphan objects are stored in
pg_largeobjects table. Due to orphan objects, size of pg_largeobject is
growing hence db so. We want to implement trigger based deletion of

orphan

objects ( LO objects) . But for that we have to know which application
tables are generating orphan objects. How to identify application tables
which are generating orphan objects. Kindly guide.

I don't quite understand where those Large Objects are coming from, if
you're not using them in your application. Perhaps the JDBC driver is
creating them behind your back? Enabling statement logging might give a
clue (log_statement=all).

No, we do some things for you but creating Large Objects is not one of them

Dave