Re: Corrupt index stopping autovacuum system wide

2019-07-18 Thread Aaron Pelz
> Can you tell us more about this index? Can you share its definition > (i.e. what does \d show in psql)? > Is it an expression index, or a partial index? A composite? What > datatypes are indexed? It's a simple btree expression on a geometry(Point,4326) , no expression no partial no composite.

Re: Corrupt index stopping autovacuum system wide

2019-07-17 Thread Aaron Pelz
ok into this, seems helpful. Thanks! On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 12:21 PM Peter Geoghegan wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 8:54 AM Aaron Pelz wrote: > > To me it looks like a *single* corrupt index held up autovacuums across > our entire server, even other in other databases on the same s

Corrupt index stopping autovacuum system wide

2019-07-17 Thread Aaron Pelz
Hello, Over the weekend we noticed that our max transaction IDs have been continuously increasing - got an alert it passed 1B - and we believe that no autovacuums were running for a period of about a month by looking at pg_stat_user_tables. We had not updated any autovac tuning parameters over tha