Re: Need to run CLUSTER to keep performance

In response to Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>:

> Rafael Martinez wrote:
> > DETAIL: 83623 dead row versions cannot be removed yet.
>
> Looks like you have a long-running transaction in the background, so
> VACUUM can't remove all dead tuples. I didn't see that in the vacuum
> verbose outputs you sent earlier. Is there any backends in "Idle in
> transaction" state, if you run ps?
>
> In 8.1, CLUSTER will remove those tuples anyway, but it's actually not
> correct. If the long-running transaction decides to do a select on
> hosts-table later on, it will see an empty table because of that. That's
> been fixed in 8.3, but it also means that CLUSTER might no longer help
> you on 8.3. VACUUM FULL is safe in that sense in 8.1 as well.

Considering how small the table is, you may want to just program the
process holding the transaction open to do a vacuum full of that table
when it's done with it's work.

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Bill Moran
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