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On 10 Jan 2008, at 11:18, Gábor Farkas wrote:

Simon Riggs wrote:
also, even if it is wrong, can an 'idle-in-transaction' connection that was opened today block the vacuuming of rows that were deleted yesterday?
Yes, if the rows were deleted after the connection started.

to avoid any potential misunderstandings, i will summarize the situation:

1. the vacuum-cronjob refuses to remove dead rows since 1.jan.2008.

2. i know that no postgres-process is older than 7.jan.2008. (from "ps aux | grep postgres", and except the postgres-system-processes)

how can this happen?



To my understanding the question how old the processes are is only partially of interest, if a process touches those rows in a transaction just before the vacuum runs, it can't remove those rows. So all you need to get in this situation is a transaction that touches the rows in a transaction and
keeps the transaction alive before vacuum runs.

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