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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Dan Harris <fbsd@drivefaster.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: vacuum full seems to hang on very small table
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:35:14 +0100
Message-ID: <1144164914.13549.502.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <443289E3.7020801@drivefaster.net>
References: <443289E3.7020801@drivefaster.net>

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 08:59 -0600, Dan Harris wrote:
> I have a table with 1 live row that I found has 115000 dead rows in it ( 
> from a testing run ).  I'm trying to VACUUM FULL the table and it has 
> run for over 18 hours without completion.  Considering the hardware on 
> this box and the fact that performance seems reasonable in all other 
> aspects, I'm confused as to why this would happen.  The database other 
> than this table is quite large ( 70 gigs on disk ) and I would expect to 
> take days to complete but I just did 'vacuum full table_stats'.  That 
> should only do that table, correct?  I'm running 8.0.3.

Read this http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/release-8-0-5.html
and you'll probably decide to upgrade.

Best Regards, Simon Riggs




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