Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c8Ls3-000314-MR for pgsql-admin@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2016 06:44:59 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c8Ls3-0004bE-2u for pgsql-admin@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2016 06:44:59 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c8Ls2-0004b7-KT for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2016 06:44:58 +0000 Received: from mwork.nabble.com ([162.253.133.43]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c8Lry-0005Vb-VD for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2016 06:44:57 +0000 Received: from mben.nabble.com (unknown [162.253.133.72]) by mwork.nabble.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 339FA6E18CE78 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2016 23:44:53 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 23:44:53 -0700 (MST) From: rajan To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Message-ID: <1479624293126-5931145.post@n3.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <19337.1479484872@sss.pgh.pa.us> References: <1479470449084-5930937.post@n3.nabble.com> <19337.1479484872@sss.pgh.pa.us> Subject: Re: vacuum full is not reclaiming the space and showing non-removable rows MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Pg-Spam-Score: -0.3 (/) List-Archive: List-Help: List-ID: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Mailing-List: pgsql-admin Precedence: bulk Sender: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org thanks for the reply. Restarting the DB and running vacuum again did recover some space. But still there are dead rows. vacuum full verbose chnges_23_21; INFO: vacuuming "public.chnges_23_21" INFO: "chnges_23_21": found 8436850 removable, 239750 nonremovable row versions in 89460 pages DETAIL: 0 dead row versions cannot be removed yet. CPU 1.38s/0.36u sec elapsed 4.82 sec. VACUUM And my pg_prepared_xacts is empty. ----- -- Thanks, Rajan. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.nabble.com/vacuum-full-is-not-reclaiming-the-space-and-showing-non-removable-rows-tp5930937p5931145.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - admin mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin