Re: [SQL] Can VACUUM, but cannot do VACUUM ANALYZE

Oleg Broytmann wrote:
>On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Albert REINER wrote:
>> I.e., I can VACUUM, but I cannot do VACUUM ANALYZE. Why should analyze
>> do an ABORT? By the way, I do not notice any strange behavior with
>> this database, and pg_dump works fine on it.
>
> Once I saw similar behaviour. I found thta the problem was in broken
>strcoll() function in glibc2; I compiled Postgres with locale support.
>After upgrading (Debain GNU/Linux 2.0 to 2.1) I got newer libc, and the
>problem gone away.
> What system/config you are running? OS, compiler, postgres version,
>compilation flags?

There was also a specific vacuum analyze bug in vc_abort, fixed in 6.5.2.
The error log showed something like

ERROR: vacuum: can't destroy lock file!
NOTICE: AbortTransaction and not in in-progress state

See the pgsql-hackers archive around 10th and 13th August.

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