Re: vacuum output question

From: "Dan Armbrust" <daniel(dot)armbrust(dot)list(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: vacuum output question
Date: 2008-11-14 15:00:14
Message-ID: 82f04dc40811140700n22437885q8b9b882a4d5130f2@mail.gmail.com
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>
> There was concurrent access to the table during VACUUMing, so the long
> delay is explainable as long waits for cleanup lock, plus probably
> thrashing the cache with bloated indexes. The CPU overhead per row seems
> OK. We should instrument the wait time during a VACUUM and report that
> also.
>
> --
> Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
> PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support

Is that a guess? Or something you can tell from the log above?
Because there shouldn't have been any concurrent access while the
VACUUM was run - the customers had failed over to a different system,
so while I can't be sure, I expect that there was no other database
activity at the time the command was run.

Thanks,

Dan

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