Hi all 

I have had this issue a couple of times now. on Solaris, and on 7.3 of the db. 

I was did a normal vacuum and then I did a full which hung on a table, I waited for 
over an hour but there were no activity going on so I ctrl'cd the job in a terminal 
window, kill off all associated processes and try to do another normal vacuum which 
hung at the same spot. So I once again killed the processes. I went into the db and 
query the pg_tables tables and found the order of the tables, I vacuumed the ones just 
before and just after and they went fine but the offending table would not vacuum, 
Next I thought I could just pg_dump that table but the db would not allow me to do 
that either, I found a copy of the table from a restore I did on another box( the 
table has only 7 rows.) So I try to drop it but that would work either. So the only 
alternative was to stop and restart the db which is totally unacceptable in a 24x7 
shop. 

Does any one else see what I have done wrong or could do differently next time. Oh yes 
and after the stop and start I could do a full vacuum on that table as well as the 
whole database. 

I know it's after st. Patrick's day but I did not find any green men lurking around to 
be causing this, any ideas?, hints?, suggestions? 

I am at my wits ends as to where to turn next, I most certainly do not want to another 
vacuum full.  

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