Re: Vacuum Problem

From: Cedric BUSCHINI <cbuschini(at)carax(dot)com>
To: Usama Dar <munir(dot)usama(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Vacuum Problem
Date: 2007-12-05 10:04:46
Message-ID: 475677BE.5090301@carax.com
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Usama Dar a écrit :
>
>
> On Dec 5, 2007 12:53 PM, Cedric BUSCHINI <cbuschini(at)carax(dot)com
> <mailto:cbuschini(at)carax(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have a problem. The following message keeps appearing in logs :
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> WARNING: database "data_base" must be vacuumed within 2606182
> transactions
> HINT: To avoid a database shutdown, execute a full-database VACUUM in
> "data_base".
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Last week I have run : 'vacuumdb -vz -U postgres -ddata_base'
> Today it's still listed in 'ps aux'
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> postgres 2113 1.0 1.9 26256 20132 ? D Nov26 130:14
> postgres: postgres data_base [local] VACUUM
> root 2146 0.0 0.1 4616 1508 tty1 Ss Nov28 0:00
> -bash
> root 2176 0.0 0.0 4648 996 tty1 S+ Nov28 0:00
> vacuumdb -vz -U postgres -ddata_base
> postgres 2177 0.0 0.3 10260 3572 ? S Nov28 7:12
> postgres: postgres data_base [local] VACUUM waiting
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> In pg_stat_activity I can see two lines mentionning 'vacuum
> verbose analyze'
>
> What can I do ??
> I really need help
>
>
> it seems to me that you need to vacuum more frequently, and the hint
> seems to point you to a vacuum full for now, try "vacuumdb -avz", but
> beaware it can be time & resource consuming.
So your advice is to stop the running vacuum and run 'vacuum -avz' ?
My actual question is the running processes are doing something or not ?

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