Re: Table size is constantly growing and causing performance problems

From: Mahesh Shetty <maheshetty20(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: srinivasan s <srinioracledba7(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: shammat(at)gmx(dot)net, pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Table size is constantly growing and causing performance problems
Date: 2025-02-12 07:53:46
Message-ID: CAJPiW+iM0Kua9G79AELF287Zpp8=dPEirV2OnaJ5GeRVcYvUJw@mail.gmail.com
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Do you see "duplicate key violations" in the logs ?

Regards,
Mahesh Shetty

On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 at 13:13, srinivasan s <srinioracledba7(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi Shammat,
>
> There were some very old idle sessions waiting for clientread, which we
> have killed. no idle in transaction for a long time
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM <shammat(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>
>> srinivasan s schrieb am 12.02.2025 um 05:44:
>> > One of the tables in our database suddenly started growing very
>> > fast without any changes to the environment. it has grown over 10GB
>> > in the last week and this is causing performance issues. We ended up
>> > adding an index to solve the performance problem but the table
>> > growth didn't stop. It is growing continuously. we are using
>> > postgres version 12 on ubuntu
>> >
>> > 3. Also noticed that there is a auto vacuum job running on the table
>> with (to prevent wraparound)
>>
>> Do you have any connections with the state "idle in transaction"? They
>> would prevent (auto) vacuum.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

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