Michiel Holtkamp wrote:

Running low on disk space can also happen when something goes wrong
with
the recording trigger (this can be a hardware fault). In both cases,
we
don't want to store even more data, but we will want to make a
selection
based on age (newer data is more important).

Did you think about testing pg_relation_size('pg_largeobject') against a fixed threshold before allocating new large objects? If it's higher than the threshold, you could either stop importing new data, or lo_unlink-ing older entries and immediately issuing a plain vacuum before continuing.

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Daniel
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