Dropping the BEGIN has cleared up the issue. Thank you.
On 4/3/2012 9:50 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 04/03/12 9:40 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Alex Matzinger<amatzinger(at)experts-exchange(dot)com> writes:
>>> > The connection that is executing the SELECT 1 are generally open
>>> for 1-5
>>> > hours before they are killed. The specific connection only executes
>>> > SELECT 1. The transaction is simply BEGIN, and then SELECT 1's, no
>>> > other query is executed.
>> Lose the "BEGIN" and it will probably work more nicely.
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> indeed,a 1-5 hour long transaction means VACUUM can't clean up
> anything newer than the oldest active transaction, and thats not per
> database, thats cluster-wide.
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