Re: strange behavior (corruption?) of large production database

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: "Hackers (PostgreSQL)" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: strange behavior (corruption?) of large production database
Date: 2005-12-03 00:47:15
Message-ID: 10244.1133570835@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
> Since this database has many large, but static tables (i.e. new data is
> loaded each day, but the tables are partitioned into year-month tables),
> I'm thinking we can run VACUUM FREEZE on the whole database once, and
> then run VACUUM FREEZE periodically on just the tables that have had
> rows added since the last time -- is that correct?

That would work for the user tables, but the lesson to draw from this is
not to forget about the system catalogs ...

regards, tom lane

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