Re: [SQL] vacuum fails

yep. restarting the server does the trick!

cheers

frank

On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 01:03:34PM -0400, Thomas Good wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Frank Joerdens wrote:
>
> > vacuum fails with the following error:
> >
> > NOTICE: Rel beruf: Pages 18: Changed 0, Reapped 18, Empty 0, New 0; Tup
> > 900: Vac 565, Crash 0, UnUsed 441, MinLen 60, .
> > NOTICE: Ind idx_b: Pages 17; Tuples 900: Deleted 0. Elapsed 0/0 sec.
> > NOTICE: Rel beruf: Pages: 18 --> 10.
> > NOTICE: BlowawayRelationBuffers(beruf, 10): block 11 is referenced
> > (private 0, last 0, global 1)
> > FATAL 1: VACUUM (vc_vacheap): BlowawayRelationBuffers returned -2
> >
> > what exactly does that mean? how do you recover from this? would i lose
> > data if i dump the data from this table and recreate it?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > frank
>
> Frank -
>
> That is what I did and it was fine. But Vadim told me later
> that all I really had to do was shutdown the server, restart it and
> re-vacuum. You might try that first (you may also have to rm the
> pesky pg_vlock in the ../data/base/whatever directory.
>
> BlowawayRelationBuffers sounds ominous doesn't it? It turned out
> not to be so bad in my case!
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
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