Hi PostgreSQL developers!

Recently we got the following bug report about VACUUM FULL. Can
anybody comment on this?

If you have questions concerning the submitter's configuration, can
you please ask him directly? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Thanks in advance and have a nice day!

Martin

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Subject: Bug#253295: postgresql: VACUUM FULL produce warnings
Reply-To: Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 17:19:13 +0400
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Package: postgresql
Version: 7.4.2-3.backports.org.1
Severity: normal

i have small postgesql database with my own clients (C+libpq). database update are 
rare (several tens per day), transactions common (one or two every second)


if i run "VACUUM FULL" in psql i get several messages like this:

WARNING:  index "pg_depend_depender_index" contains 3722 row versions, but table 
contains 3720 row versions

if i do REINDEX DATABASE before VACUUM i don't see any warnings.

it's normal behaviour? or i must look for problem source?

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----- Forwarded message from Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----

Subject: Bug#253295: postgresql: VACUUM FULL produce warnings
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From: Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:03:03 +0100
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On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 14:19, Ed wrote:
> Package: postgresql
> Version: 7.4.2-3.backports.org.1
> Severity: normal
> 
> i have small postgesql database with my own clients (C+libpq). database update are 
> rare (several tens per day), transactions common (one or two every second)
> 
> 
> if i run "VACUUM FULL" in psql i get several messages like this:
> 
> WARNING:  index "pg_depend_depender_index" contains 3722 row versions, but table 
> contains 3720 row versions
> 
> if i do REINDEX DATABASE before VACUUM i don't see any warnings.
> 
> it's normal behaviour? or i must look for problem source?

I wouldn't consider it normal.  Reindexing will remove the problem, of
course.  The question is how the problem arose in the first place (that
is, more row versions in the index than in the table itself).

Do all transactions terminate before you run VACUUM FULL?

Is it the case that this problem keeps recurring?

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Subject: Bug#253295: Re[2]: Bug#253295: postgresql: VACUUM FULL produce
    warnings
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:10:25 +0400
To: Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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        SUBJ_BRACKET_BALANCED,SUBJ_BRACKET_OFF,SUBJ_BRACKET_ON autolearn=no 
        version=2.61

OE> Do all transactions terminate before you run VACUUM FULL?

No. but i think it's not problem source:
 - afaik VACUUM FULL must lock tables and can't start before
 write-transactions done
 - if i see this messages once - i get its every time VACUUM FULL
 running, until i execute REINDEX DATABASE

OE> Is it the case that this problem keeps recurring?

i can't say when problem appear, but i see it every day on working
database.

what may be problem source? how can i find it?


 - i found now AUTOVACUUM=yes in postmaster.conf, but
 postgesql-contrib don't installed
 - postgresql work over xfs filesystem on linux 2.6



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