Re: autovacuum not freeing up unused space on 8.3.0

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Stuart Brooks <stuartb(at)cat(dot)co(dot)za>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: autovacuum not freeing up unused space on 8.3.0
Date: 2008-02-25 18:27:13
Message-ID: 20080225182713.GJ15597@alvh.no-ip.org
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Stuart Brooks wrote:

> ERROR: canceling autovacuum task
> CONTEXT: automatic vacuum of table "metadb.test.transactions"

Are these happening regularly? They indicate that something is
happening on the table that collides with what autovacuum needs to do,
and autovacuum defers its task. For this to happen you need to be doing
ALTER TABLE or similar however; normal UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE should not
cause autovacuum to cancel itself.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

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