Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM hanging on PostgreSQL 8.3.1 for larger tables

2008-04-13 Thread Paragon
> Yikes. That's *way* too high. If you're trying to get the vacuum to complete quickly, it really should be zero anyway. Nonzero is for when you don't care how >> long vacuum takes as long as it's not sucking too much I/O from your real work. Thanks Tom, yap you were right now it runs instan

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM hanging on PostgreSQL 8.3.1 for larger tables

2008-04-13 Thread Paragon
> Sure looks like a near-idle machine to me :-(. > I think that the vacuum must be stuck on a lock. What other Postgres processes have you got, and what are they doing? > regards, tom lane Originally I thought it was the autovacuuming getting in the way since I noticed

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM hanging on PostgreSQL 8.3.1 for larger tables

2008-04-12 Thread Paragon
>"Paragon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I am running into problems vacuuming my larger tables. It seems for >> tables greater than 1 million rows, Vacuum just hangs. I could leave it running >> for hours and it never comes to completion. >Is it a

[GENERAL] VACUUM hanging on PostgreSQL 8.3.1 for larger tables

2008-04-12 Thread Paragon
I am running into problems vacuuming my larger tables. It seems for tables greater than 1 million rows, Vacuum just hangs. I could leave it running for hours and it never comes to completion. Things like copying the whole table to a temp table with bulk insert such as (SELECT * INTO temp FROM