Re: auto truncate/vacuum full

From: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: JC Praud <brutaltruth42(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: auto truncate/vacuum full
Date: 2009-10-28 16:13:54
Message-ID: 3073cc9b0910280913t15e05081yf6e1997f958b8efa@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Do you have a vacuum in cron or something like that?  As Tom says, if it
> had been autovacuum, it should have been cancelled automatically (else
> we've got a bug); but something invoking vacuum externally wouldn't
> have, so what you describe is what we would expect.
>

then we have a bug (at least in 8.3, haven't tried in 8.4)... i see
this a month ago, an autovacuum blocking a lot of concurrent updates
and selects... once i pg_cancel_backend() the autovacuum process the
other ones starting to move

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Atentamente,
Jaime Casanova
Soporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL
Asesoría y desarrollo de sistemas
Guayaquil - Ecuador
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