Re: Reindex does not finish 8.2.6

2008/3/13, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>:
> Clodoaldo escribió:
>
> > 2008/3/13, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>:
> > > Clodoaldo escribió:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Now what is happening is that reindex does not finish even with a
> > > > small 6,500 rows table and after a reboot. In top there is no CPU or
> > > > memory usage by postmaster and vmstat shows no disk activity.
> > >
> > > Hmm, are you vacuuming the system catalogs appropriately?
> >
> > If a simple vacuum in instead of a vacuum full is appropriate then yes
> > the db is vacuumed every three hours after each bulk insert/delete.
>
>
> As superuser? Take a look at whether relations are skipped during
> vacuum.

Now I vacuumed with superuser.

> Try vacuuming pg_class, pg_index, pg_attribute manually and see if that
> makes the problem go away.

It does not go away.

> If it doesn't, then my guess is that it's
> time to see what the hanging process is doing -- try an strace on it, or
> attaching it with gdb and getting a backtrace. (I hope your binaries
> have debug symbols).

Will try it.

Regards, Clodoaldo Pinto Neto