| From: | "Jeremy Haile" <jhaile(at)fastmail(dot)fm> |
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| To: | "Magnus Hagander" <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Stats collector frozen? |
| Date: | 2007-01-26 15:07:31 |
| Message-ID: | 1169824051.30848.1171376725@webmail.messagingengine.com |
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> We have had lots of reports of issues with the stats collector on
> Windows. Some were definitly fixed by the patch by O&T, but I don't
> think all.
Here were a couple of other reports I found:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg00415.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-04/msg00127.php
> The thing is, since it didn't give any error messages at all, most users
> wouldn't notice. Other than their tables getting bloated, in which case
> they would do a manual vacuum and conlcude autovacuum wasn't good
> enough. Or something.
This is indeed what I assumed at first. I started running "vacuum
analyze" hourly and turned off autovacuum. Later, I decided to try the
autovacuum route again and investigated why it wasn't working well.
Magnus - could you send me a patched exe to try in my environment?
Would it be compatible with 8.2.1?
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