postgresql/contrib/vacuumlo
Peter Eisentraut 74618e2b82 Another round of those unportable config/build changes :-/
* Add option to build with OpenSSL out of the box. Fix thusly exposed
  bit rot. Although it compiles now, getting this to do something
  useful is left as an exercise.

* Fix Kerberos options to defer checking for required libraries until
  all the other libraries are checked for.

* Change default odbcinst.ini and krb5.srvtab path to PREFIX/etc.

* Install work around for Autoconf's install-sh relative path anomaly.
  Get rid of old INSTL_*_OPTS variables, now that we don't need them
  anymore.

* Use `gunzip -c' instead of g?zcat. Reportedly broke on AIX.

* Look for only one of readline.h or readline/readline.h, not both.

* Make check for PS_STRINGS cacheable. Don't test for the header files
  separately.

* Disable fcntl(F_SETLK) test on Linux.

* Substitute the standard GCC warnings set into CFLAGS in configure,
  don't add it on in Makefile.global.

* Sweep through contrib tree to teach makefiles standard semantics.

... and in completely unrelated news:

* Make postmaster.opts arbitrary options-aware. I still think we need to
  save the environment as well.
2000-07-09 13:14:19 +00:00
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Makefile Another round of those unportable config/build changes :-/ 2000-07-09 13:14:19 +00:00
README.vacuumlo Add missing /contrib files 2000-06-19 14:02:16 +00:00
vacuumlo.c Update to /contrib from Karel. 2000-06-19 13:54:50 +00:00

README.vacuumlo

$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/contrib/vacuumlo/Attic/README.vacuumlo,v 1.1 2000/06/19 14:02:16 momjian Exp $

This is a simple utility that will remove any orphaned large objects out of a
PostgreSQL database.

Compiling
--------

Simply run make. A single executable "vacuumlo" is created.

Useage
------

vacuumlo [-v] database [db2 ... dbn]

The -v flag outputs some progress messages to stdout.

Method
------

First, it builds a temporary table which contains all of the oid's of the
large objects in that database.

It then scans through any columns in the database that are of type 'oid', and
removes any entries from the temporary table.

Finally, it runs through the first table, and removes from the second table, any
oid's it finds. What is left are the orphans, and these are removed.

I decided to place this in contrib as it needs further testing, but hopefully,
this (or a variant of it) would make it into the backed as a "vacuum lo" command
in a later release.

Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
http://www.retep.org.uk
March 21 1999

Committed April 10 1999 Peter