"Thomas H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this somehow sounds buggy:
vacuum full absolutely *will* bloat your index, if run on a heavily-modified table. I do not think it will bloat pg_xlog by itself however; are you sure you don't have some other open transactions? > a) .. prevent total diskspace fillup. what happens if i send a cancel = > signal to the process? Killing it should not corrupt anything; if it does that IS a serious bug and will be met with a full alarm response... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org