Re: auto vaccum is dying

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Rodrigo Barboza <rodrigombufrj(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

>
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Rodrigo Barboza <rodrigombufrj(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, I have a table that receives lots of updates and inserts.
>>> Auto vaccum is always being cancelled on that table.
>>>
>>
>> Do you have a scheduled task that clusters or reindexes the table?
>>
>> Newer versions of PostgreSQL will log the conflicting statement that
>> caused the vacuum to cancel.
>>
>>
> I have nothing scheduled, only auto vacuum, but with the default
> parameters.
>

So what is in the log files pertaining to this?

>
>> Also, what full version are you running?
>>
>>
> I am running postgres 9.1.4 with default auto vacuum parameters. I have
> only a scheduled job that runs delete for old tuples. Sometimes it a lot of
> tuples. Beside that, no other tasks.
>

You are missing 10 minor releases worth of bug fixes, some of which are
related to autovacuuming.

Cheers,

Jeff