Re: [HACKERS] 8.3.1 autovacuum stopped doing anything months ago

2008-09-19 Thread Jeffrey Baker
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > On Friday 19 September 2008 00:23:34 Jeffrey Baker wrote: > > Anyway, I have some issues. One, of course, is that the autovacuum > should > > not have been deadlocked or otherwise stalled like that. Perhaps it > needs >

Re: [HACKERS] 8.3.1 autovacuum stopped doing anything months ago

2008-09-19 Thread Robert Treat
On Friday 19 September 2008 00:23:34 Jeffrey Baker wrote: > Anyway, I have some issues. One, of course, is that the autovacuum should > not have been deadlocked or otherwise stalled like that. Perhaps it needs > a watchdog of some kind. Has anyone else experienced an issue like that in > 8.3.1?

Re: [HACKERS] 8.3.1 autovacuum stopped doing anything months ago

2008-09-19 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Jeffrey Baker wrote: Secondly, there really does need to be an autovacuum=off,really,thanks so that my maintenance can proceed without competition for i/o resources. Is there any way to make that happen? You could bump up autovacuum_freeze_max_age while you run the vacuums manually, and then

[HACKERS] 8.3.1 autovacuum stopped doing anything months ago

2008-09-18 Thread Jeffrey Baker
I have an 8.3.1 instance on Linux and since June 29th the autovacuum process has claimed to be working on the same three tables. That's OK, I am a very patient man, and these are very large tables. Today I started to get transaction wraparound warnings, so I go and check it out. Turns out the au