Re: BUG #5774: VACCUM & REINDEX kills production environement

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Balamurugan Mahendran <balamurugan(at)adaptavant(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, depesz <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com>, Bala Murugan <b2m(at)a-cti(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #5774: VACCUM & REINDEX kills production environement
Date: 2010-11-29 18:53:36
Message-ID: 1291056710-sup-3907@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Balamurugan Mahendran's message of lun nov 29 13:48:43 -0300 2010:
> Thanks, I'll remove it. But I still get down time because of Vacuum(table
> lock). Is there any other better way to do this? I don't mind to switch to
> bigger instance with more Hardware.

I wonder if you're doing something other than INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE that
causes the service to "block" in the presence of VACUUM. Maybe your
application is trying to do ALTER TABLE too frequently (or something
else entirely), which *would* block.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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