IIRC killing vacuums can cause some minor problems - i think it may have
been something like index bloat. Tom said something about it once before.

Otherwise, as I understand it, it's "safe" to kill vacuums.

Cheers
Iain

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Werner Bohl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "[ADMIN]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 2:09 AM
Subject: [ADMIN] Stopping vacuum


> Hi,
>
> We have a very big db that was not vacuumed for a long time. We started
> vacuum 3 days ago and it has not finished yet. There are some urgent
> processes that have to be run against the db.
>
> Is it safe to kill vacuum? It was started with 'vacuum full analyze'
> Is there anyway to speed it up at next start?
>
>
> TIA,
>
> -- 
> Werner Bohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Infutor de Costa Rica
>
>
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