Re: Killing Postmaster

It's not a machine I look at often, and I realiased that it's database had
never been vacuumed and had grown to about 2 gigs....

It is a dual PII 450, with 384 megs and U2W disks... but I started the
vacuum about 10 days ago.. and when I checked it hadn't finished... I
guess I'll kill it and try in verbose mode! or perhaps kill it and
upgrade to 7!

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Poul L. Christiansen wrote:

> A week? That sounds much too long to me (assuming that you have
> PostgresSQL funning on fairly good hardware).
>
> There could be something wrong with at specific table. Try to vacuum a
> table one at the time using "vacuum verbose MyTable", and report any error
> you may find.
>
> I don't understand the output of a vacuum verbose, but I'm sure other
> people on this list do :-)
>
> Poul L. Christiansen
>
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, A James Lewis wrote:
>
> >
> > I have a vacuum which has been running for about a week, is that too long?
> >
> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Poul L. Christiansen wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Graham Vickrage wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > What is the correct way of killing postgres 7.0 on redhat linux.
> > >
> > > "man pg_ctl".
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Is there a reason why vacuum hangs on a DB with about 1.5 million rows?
> > >
> > > Vacuum can take a long time with 1.5M records. How long have you
> > > waited? Is there any error message?
> > >
> > > Poul L. Christiansen
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> > > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
> > >
> >
> > A. James Lewis (james(at)fsck(dot)co(dot)uk)
> > If your OS needs a virus detector... RUN!!!
> > ...Out and get Linux!
> >
>

A. James Lewis (james(at)fsck(dot)co(dot)uk)
If your OS needs a virus detector... RUN!!!
...Out and get Linux!