Re: [GENERAL] Strange VACUUM behaviour

2005-12-05 Thread Tom Lane
"Florian G. Pflug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > INFO: index "pg_toast_2144146_index" now contains 1971674 row versions > in 10018 pages > DETAIL: 4 index row versions were removed. > 2489 index pages have been deleted, 0 are currently reusable. > Just for the archives - I finally solved the pro

Re: [GENERAL] Strange VACUUM behaviour

2005-12-05 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Jim C. Nasby wrote: >>We started a VACUUM (not a VACUUM FULL) on one of your postgres 7.4.9 >>databases a few days ago. It's still running yet, and says the >>folloing about once per second: >> >>INFO: index "pg_toast_2144146_index" now contains 1971674 row versions >>in 10018 pages >>DETAIL: 4

Re: [GENERAL] Strange VACUUM behaviour

2005-11-29 Thread Florian Pflug
On Tue, November 29, 2005 0:37, Jim C. Nasby said: > One issue is that pg_toast tables can't vacuum rows until their > respective rows have been deleted by vacuuming the base table. But it's > still odd that the count decreases by 4 each time you run it. So, VACUUM would first vacuum , then pg_toa

Re: [GENERAL] Strange VACUUM behaviour

2005-11-28 Thread Jim C. Nasby
One issue is that pg_toast tables can't vacuum rows until their respective rows have been deleted by vacuuming the base table. But it's still odd that the count decreases by 4 each time you run it. As for the length of time, that could be due to heavily loaded hardware. You might do better if you