Re: [PERFORM] Postgres 7.4.2 hanging when vacuum full is run

2007-09-28 Thread Scott Marlowe
On top of what Vivek said, you need to update your pg install. 7.4.2 had a few data eating bugs if I remember correctly. 7.4 branch is up to 7.4.18, and those are a lot of bug fixes (2+ years) you're missing. If one of those bugs eats your data, don't expect any sympathy. -

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres 7.4.2 hanging when vacuum full is run

2007-09-28 Thread Vivek Khera
On Sep 28, 2007, at 10:28 AM, Radhika S wrote: 20775 ?S 0:00 postgres: abc myDB [local] idle in transaction 20776 ?S 0:00 postgres: abc myDB [local] idle 17509 ?S 0:06 postgres: abc myDB [local] VACUUM waiting 24656 ?S 0:00

[PERFORM] Postgres 7.4.2 hanging when vacuum full is run

2007-09-28 Thread Radhika S
Hi - This has been happening more recently. Our database hangs after a VACUUM and is unresponsive when we come in next morning. The vacuum job runs at 03:00 am daily. The command is : /usr/local/pgsql/bin/vacuumdb --full -d DbName Also, what exactly does this mean VACUUM waiting. Is there a rea