Re: Reindex does not finish 8.2.6

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Clodoaldo
<clodoaldo(dot)pinto(dot)neto(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 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.

Could this be a problem with a bloated table that needs a vacuum full?
I'd try that.