Re: PANIC killing vacuum process

Tom Lane ha scritto:
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
>
>> Silvio Brandani <silvio(dot)brandani(at)tech(dot)sdb(dot)it> wrote:
>>
>>> we have develop a script to execute the vacuum full on all tables
>>> of our very big database , since it is a 24 x 7 available system
>>> we have not a timeframe to exec the vacuum full.
>>> so we try with this script running the vauum full table by table
>>> and if the vacuum generate the waiting status for other
>>> connections we kill the vacuum .
>>> [ and get ]
>>> 2010-11-03 14:25:27 CET [19324]: [6-1] PANIC: cannot abort
>>> transaction 75073917, it was already committed
>>>
>
>
>> What version of PostgreSQL is this?
>>
>
> Anything pre-9.0 might do that; it's one of the known problems with the
> old VACUUM FULL implementation that made us decide to get rid of it.
>
> However, versions that are less than about a year old do have a hack
> that should avoid the PANIC for a query-cancel interrupt ... at the
> cost of ignoring the cancel interrupt, so that's not all that helpful
> a solution here.
>
>
>>> Is it possible to softly kill a vacuum process without risk a
>>> panic ?????
>>>
>
>
>> Normally, yes. VACUUM FULL is more prone to problems than a normal
>> vacuum, especially if you are using an old version. There are very
>> few circumstances where VACUUM FULL is the right thing to use.
>>
>
> Indeed. If you think you need to use VACUUM FULL on a routine basis,
> rethink that.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
We were running vacuum full because of a lot of IO problems , so we try
this way to reorganize tables....

should be better thane normal vacuum or you think the benefits of
running vacuum full are not so good to run it and a normal vacuum
analyze is enough ???

thanks,

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Silvio Brandani

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