I have used Oracle database for a Drupal project. It is functioning very fine. But the problem is the blobs table size is increasing gradually and the site getting very slow.

I have checked the following

procedure write_blob(p_hash varchar2, p_blobid out number, p_blob out blob)
  as
  begin
    select blobid,
           content
      into p_blobid,
           p_blob
      from blobs
     where hash= p_hash
     for update;

  exception
   when no_data_found then
    insert into blobs (blobid,content,hash)
         values (seq_blobs.nextval,empty_blob,p_hash)
      returning blobid, content into p_blobid,
                                     p_blob;
  end;

Also I have checked the function to write in blobs table write_blob in database.inc for oracle project.

I manually deleted few records from blobs table, but then the sites gets broken.
I am not able to archive or flush the blobs table entry.

And one more issue is: below query is locking the database and CPU utilization is very high.
SELECT BLOBID, CONTENT FROM BLOBS WHERE HASH= :B1 FOR UPDATE

Please suggest on this regards.
Thanks.

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sumankarmakar created an issue. See original summary.

francesco.sessa’s picture

Version: 7.x-1.12 » 7.x-1.x-dev

I have the same problem.
I see that clearing cache, for example, the reference in the cache table changes, but the old blob is not deleted.
I think that this is the reason of the blob table increasing.

There is any solution?
There is a way to delete unused blobs?

I can ask to add a new datafile for the tablespace, but in the future the problem would reoccur.

Any idea?

aaaristo’s picture

check the blobs_cleaner pl/sql package. blobs_cleaner.cleanup procedure. You should schedule it once a day at non-peak times.

take a backup of your database before trying it. just in case.

bohart’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (outdated)

D7 reached its EOL back in January 2025, and there is no active release for D7 for this module anymore.
Development or support is not planned for D7. All D7-related issues are marked as outdated in a bunch.

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