From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | "Jaroslav Prodelal" <slavek(at)pearshealthcyber(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: BUG #2568: Vacuum locks tables and do nothing |
Date: | 2006-08-09 02:05:43 |
Message-ID: | 14747.1155089143@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Jaroslav Prodelal" <slavek(at)pearshealthcyber(dot)com> writes:
> When vacuum starts vacuuming problematic table, it locks table and
> although, I can't see any load on the server even on disk, cpu or memory,
> table is lock and other processes can't access it. I have also tried strace
> on VACUUM process, but there wasn't any activity on it.
It sounds to me like vacuum is blocked waiting for some other process's
lock --- and then other processes queue up behind vacuum's request, but
that doesn't make it vacuum's fault. Try looking in pg_locks to see
which process actually has a granted lock on that table.
regards, tom lane
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