Re: vacuum, dead rows, usual solutions didn't help

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On 10 Jan 2008, at 11:18, Gábor Farkas wrote:

> Simon Riggs wrote:
>>> also, even if it is wrong, can an 'idle-in-transaction'
>>> connection that was opened today block the vacuuming of rows that
>>> were deleted yesterday?
>> Yes, if the rows were deleted after the connection started.
>
> to avoid any potential misunderstandings, i will summarize the
> situation:
>
> 1. the vacuum-cronjob refuses to remove dead rows since 1.jan.2008.
>
> 2. i know that no postgres-process is older than 7.jan.2008. (from
> "ps aux | grep postgres", and except the postgres-system-processes)
>
> how can this happen?
>
>

To my understanding the question how old the processes are is only
partially of interest,
if a process touches those rows in a transaction just before the
vacuum runs, it can't remove those rows.
So all you need to get in this situation is a transaction that
touches the rows in a transaction and
keeps the transaction alive before vacuum runs.

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