Zdenek Kotala <zdenek.kot...@sun.com> writes: > My colleague hit interesting problem. His transaction hanged for a > several days (PG8.3). We found that transaction (ANALYZE) command) > waited on relation lock which had been acquired by lazy vacuum. > Unfortunately, lazy vacuum on large table (38GB) takes veeeery long time > - several days.
> The problem is that vacuum and analyze use same lock. If I understood > correctly comment in analyze_rel() function it is not necessary. > I think that it is very serious issue and dead space map does not help > much in this case, because affected table is heavily modified. > If there is not another problem I suggest to use two different locks for > vacuum and analyze. We would have to invent another lock type just for ANALYZE. It does not seem worth it. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers