From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jason Culverhouse <Jason@Mischievous.org>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Can I safely kill a VACUUM ANALYZE with pg_cancel_backend 8.3
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:12:06 -0400
Message-ID: <12917.1272651126@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Jason Culverhouse <Jason@Mischievous.org> writes:
> I have a vacuum process that has been running on a table for the past 20 days.
> The server is postgres 8.3 on ubuntu linux.
> Can I safely kill the vacuum with:
> select pg_cancel_backend(26433)
Sure.
20 days is a long time. Is it actually running, or blocked on a lock?
If not blocked, I have to guess that you've chosen very poor vacuum
delay settings.
regards, tom lane
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