Re: canceling autovacuum task woes

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Steve Singer <ssinger(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: canceling autovacuum task woes
Date: 2012-07-24 18:21:40
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZJ-nSqJWrQHovv7By58d=MkwVjhz26TsmMUEFpPsBZtw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Steve Singer <ssinger(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info> wrote:
> On 12-07-24 01:48 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> I am running into a lot of customer situations where the customer
>> reports that "canceling autovacuum task" shows up in the logs, and
>> it's unclear whether this is happening often enough to matter, and
>> even more unclear what's causing it.
>
> Could autovacuum be compacting a lot of space at the end of the table. This
> is described
> in the thread
> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4D8DF88E.7080205@Yahoo.com

You (and Andres) may well be right, but I think the way we find out is
to add some better logging.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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