Re: Strange Problem

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tim Sailer <tps(at)unslept(dot)org>
Cc: "pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Strange Problem
Date: 2016-02-11 18:55:51
Message-ID: 24201.1455216951@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tim Sailer <tps(at)unslept(dot)org> writes:
> On 02/11/2016 09:53 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> "VACUUM VERBOSE <table>" would likely be informative.

> Ugh. I saw a slew of "suspending truncate due to conflicting lock
> request" scroll up the screen, along with lines like "truncated 4928 to
> 1376 pages" all the say down to "truncated 1376 to 0 pages".

> I'm guessing that my table is now empty for some reason. Sigh.

Well, it was logically empty before, now it's physically empty too.

So what this confirms is that there is *not* a question of uncommitted
transactions or anything like that. At this point I'd be looking for
client-side problems in your data insertion procedures.

regards, tom lane

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