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Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:01:17 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kurilemu.de; s=schmee; t=1762974075; bh=HNzcwu7fv7nw30yBUr26x0kmJlqtEj40NGMgbguJir8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:From; b=4jUFrXkf8IoZftmPC5ojTaNmw7kbc+iGGpyX1rNoWLx0RIdc39F5STCb+5EkRkzf9 UCBJagDQxJDCv9ANrhBcbIJXPNDP1HRMPiaaZK23mcr09+OAk1u1VItPy/5SAEn7gj VNQuT/3OR8eSwZBouIxRfczVwiMQJHbM8LFMXq2RjSfQo0hL84O7uqwZaZ+sL0FPSU CiGzzfXTEs6+tPg+R2tVkN1xXOQMIcItKdW86cPHdzgUO2c55YgUJho8BhNsSa/aMm IE8ztXPQIENLwzOJf9kr8ZF+6hT+I0aN5XhtUM7Glw5Cx3bEnpRhJROOKELn5whNB2 hWX/987G+/mtQ== Received: by schmee.kurilemu.internal (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B4DDB76; Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:01:15 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:01:15 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=81lvaro?= Herrera To: Sbob Cc: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org Subject: Re: vacuum process running for more than 2 days, still in scanning heap phase Message-ID: <202511121900.6boicrjyyy3i@alvherre.pgsql> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk On 2025-Nov-12, Sbob wrote: > This is not autovacuum, we ran a vacuum freeze manyally Oh, well, I guess this might be very slow if it decides to freeze a lot of tuples. Maybe have a look at the rate at which it generates WAL. Why did you run vacuum freeze anyway? -- Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "We’ve narrowed the problem down to the customer’s pants being in a situation of vigorous combustion" (Robert Haas, Postgres expert extraordinaire)