Re: database bloat,non removovable rows, slow query etc...

From: Markus Schaber <schabi(at)logix-tt(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Matteo Sgalaberni <sgala(at)sgala(dot)com>
Subject: Re: database bloat,non removovable rows, slow query etc...
Date: 2006-09-01 16:09:31
Message-ID: 44F85B3B.6080106@logix-tt.com
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Hi, Tom and Matteo,

Tom Lane wrote:
> Matteo Sgalaberni <sgala(at)sgala(dot)com> writes:
>> 22 daemons that have a persistent connection to this database(all
>> connection are in "idle"(no transaction opened).
>
> You may think that, but you are wrong.
>
>> INFO: "cliente": found 0 removable, 29931 nonremovable row versions in 559 pages
>> DETAIL: 29398 dead row versions cannot be removed yet.
>
> The only way the above can happen is if there are some fairly old open
> transactions. Looking in pg_stat_activity might help you identify the
> culprit(s).

Another possibility might be an outstanding two-phase-commit transaction.

HTH,
Markus
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