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From: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Alexandre Leclerc <aleclerc@ipso.ca>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Vacuum Full (PG 8.1) - Urgent help needed - Cancel & transaction "liberation"
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:59:03 -0400
Message-ID: <4BC86D27.4020209@2ndquadrant.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BC8639C.4010202@ipso.ca>
References: <4BC8639C.4010202@ipso.ca>

Alexandre Leclerc wrote:
> - 2. Could we stop VACUUM FULL and simply restart postmaster and 
> starting a normal VACUUM even if it's slow?

This is what you want to do.  VACUUM FULL is the slow way--much, much 
slower--and it is not needed to clean up from wraparound issues.  Here's 
two more opinions on that:  
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/5224.1255142294@sss.pgh.pa.us

And here's some notes about why you should avoid VACUUM FULL:  
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/VACUUM_FULL

(Note that you don't have a good CLUSTER implementation in your 8.1 
server, so using that to clean up tables isn't an option)

-- 
Greg Smith  2ndQuadrant US  Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
greg@2ndQuadrant.com   www.2ndQuadrant.us




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