Re: Adding primary key on table with 3 billion records.

From: Irene Yeh <ireney(at)fair(dot)com>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Adding primary key on table with 3 billion records.
Date: 2019-10-30 15:56:33
Message-ID: 2F3FD2F1-72EB-4BF6-9F26-686BC944A787@fair.com
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Ok. Did my stop and restart completely restart the auto vacuum job?

Irene

> On Oct 30, 2019, at 01:03, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2019-10-29 at 21:17 -0700, Irene Yeh wrote:
>> Here are some issues we're having right now
>> 1. The DB started autovacuum after we created a unique index. It's been running
>> for a really really long time and it won't let us alter the table to add null constraint.
>> I tried to cancel the autovacuum job but it just starts backup.
>
> If it blocks ALTER TABLE, it must be an anti-wraparound autovacuum.
>
> Let it finish before you continue. Once this necessary maintenance job
> is done, you will be able to proceed.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
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