Re: Stuck vacuum...

On Friday 09 October 2009 08:22:52 pm Tom Lane wrote:
> Mike Diehl <mdiehl(at)diehlnet(dot)com> writes:
> > I'm doing a routine vacuum on my database and it seems to be getting
> > "stuck."
> >
> > I've got a "servers" table with only a few rows and columns in it and
> > this is what vacuum has to say:
> >
> > # VACUUM ANALYZE VERBOSE servers;
> > INFO: vacuuming "public.servers"
> > INFO: scanned index "servers_id" to remove 19200 row versions
> > DETAIL: CPU 0.02s/0.01u sec elapsed 0.03 sec.
> > INFO: scanned index "servers_name" to remove 19200 row versions
> > DETAIL: CPU 0.03s/0.01u sec elapsed 0.05 sec.
> >
> > The problem is that it's been stalled for several minutes. It's
> > beginning to sound like a hard drive problem. Any other ideas?
>
> Maybe it's waiting for some other session to release a page-level lock.
> Have you got anything else running in the database, and if so what is
> that doing?
>
> regards, tom lane

I restarted Postgres and re-ran the vacuum. All seems OK now. Thank you for
your time. I guess I should have refrained from jumping to conclusions.

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Take care and have fun,
Mike Diehl.