From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: the right time to vacuum database?
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 13:46:39 -0400
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:07:03AM -0700, Charles.Hou wrote:
> i use the VACUUM VERBOSE a table , but it had been hold 10 minutes . i
> must use the linux command " kill " to exit the VACUUM.
> after i kill this PID, the PostgreSql have been restart
> automatically.
Maybe it was doing work. Why did you kill it? If there is a problem
on that table, I wouldn't be surprised that it'd take 10 minutes.
You just caused all the work it started to do to be undone, and to
cause more bloat. But. . .
> DETAIL: 0 dead row versions cannot be removed yet.
. . . this suggests you don't have bloat on that table at least. So
it sounds to me like your disk use is going up because you have a lot
of data.
A
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