Re: VACUUM ANALYZE suddenly taking forever

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Nolan Cafferky <Nolan(dot)Cafferky(at)rbsinteractive(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: VACUUM ANALYZE suddenly taking forever
Date: 2006-07-27 15:31:43
Message-ID: 20060727153143.GA18774@surnet.cl
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Nolan Cafferky wrote:

> The so far untried ideas I've had are:
>
> * Try out the autovacuum service
> * Re-index tables (this hasn't been done for at least months, maybe never)
> * Do some selective VACUUM FULL on high-use tables (materialized view
> for report seems like a likely culprit, but also seems like it wouldn't
> influence both databases)
> * Restart postgres, restart the machine itself, and other useless handwaving

* Check whether there are open, idle transactions and close them

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