Re: vacuum, dead rows, usual solutions didn't help

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Gábor Farkas <gabor(at)nekomancer(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: vacuum, dead rows, usual solutions didn't help
Date: 2008-01-10 06:41:06
Message-ID: 4785BE02.2070502@commandprompt.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-general

Gábor Farkas wrote:
> hi,
>
> i have a postgresql-8.2.4 db,
>
> and vacuuming it does not remove the dead rows
>
>
> basically, the problem is this part of the vacuum-output:

> on the db-server, 4 postgres processes are "idle in transaction", but
> none is older than 2 days.

If you have something idle in transaction, your vacuums are useless. You
need to fix your app.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-general by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Joshua D. Drake 2008-01-10 06:44:01 Re: Query to get column-names in table via PG tables?
Previous Message Ken Johanson 2008-01-10 06:37:50 Query to get column-names in table via PG tables?