Re: large table

From: Eduardo Morras <emorrasg(at)yahoo(dot)es>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: large table
Date: 2014-09-22 19:47:01
Message-ID: 20140922214701.ab49958dc9ffda5a7848cc01@yahoo.es
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:15:27 -0700
Luke Coldiron <lukecoldiron(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:

> > > I'd guess that some other process held a transaction open for a
> > > couple of week, and that prevented any vacuuming from taking
> > > place.
> > >
> Interesting idea, on the surface I'm not sure how this would have
> happened in the system but I can certainly explore forcing this to
> happen and see if the result is similar.

It happened when I developed with Java+Hibernate. It opened a transaction and made a lot of inserts and deletes while the app run. It created GB size tables with few rows and a permament 'IDLE in TRANSACTION' stops any autovacuum.

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