Re: REINDEX and COPY is wainting since Jun 21!

El 27/07/2012 12:26 p.m., Alan Hodgson escribió:
> On Friday, July 27, 2012 11:59:49 AM Ing.Edmundo.Robles.Lopez wrote:
>> Hi, i have postgres 8.3 running in SCO Openserver 5.0.7
>>
>> today, i had problems to start psql, the error mesage was: 'FATAL
>> Memory out, Detail: Failed on resqueted size ...' , and after i checked
>> the process i noticed the following:
>>
>> the elder REINDEX had been running since Jun-21 by 35 days 12 hrs
>> (35-12:12:08) WTF!!!!
>
> Well it looks like either the COPY or the VACUUM have been running since the
> 20th and are blocking the other processes. Is that a VACUUM FULL perhaps?
>

No, is a vacuum analyze.
>>
>> Can i kill safely these process?
>> there is any risk to corrupt the database???
>
> I would use pg_cancel_backend() on them. Supposed to be safe, and I've never
> had corruption issues.
>
thanks, i will try with pg_cancel_backend.
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