Re: Loss of table structure on 7.3.19

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Nigel Metheringham <nigel(dot)metheringham(at)dev(dot)intechnology(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Loss of table structure on 7.3.19
Date: 2009-09-17 14:30:36
Message-ID: 10357.1253197836@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Nigel Metheringham <nigel(dot)metheringham(at)dev(dot)intechnology(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> On 17 Sep 2009, at 14:57, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The symptoms indicate pretty strongly that you forgot about vacuuming
>> the system catalogs. A plain "VACUUM" executed in every database, by
>> a superuser, is sufficient for this. Trying to be smart by vacuuming
>> only what you think needs vacuumed is not sufficient.

> By "in every database" do you mean we need to vacuum the template*
> databases too?

All the connectable databases, I believe is the rule (although 7.4
was so long it might have done things differently).

regards, tom lane

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