Good evening, tonight while running my routine vacuum, the following came up on my screen:
---8<--------------- NOTICE: Rel xamefiles: Uninitialized page 708135 - fixing NOTICE: Rel xamefiles: Uninitialized page 708136 - fixing NOTICE: Rel xamefiles: Uninitialized page 708137 - fixing NOTICE: Rel xamefiles: Uninitialized page 708138 - fixing NOTICE: Rel xamefiles: Uninitialized page 708599 - fixing ---8<--------------- There were a lot more than this, several hundered. Here's the general details of the DB: - Approximately 30,000,000 rows - No triggers - Table consists strictly of text, integers and one key ( SERIAL ) - PostgreSQL 7.2.3 ( yes, i'll update to 7.2.4 in the next day or so ) - Pentium III 1.2Ghz with 1Gb RAM running RedHat 8.0 ( Not my machine! ) Here's the lead up to events: - Two days ago I DELETE'd approximately 7 million rows - I proceeded to vacuum, but it was 'terminated' by another admin approximately 12 hours later - I restarted the vacuum, which resulted in the following stats: NOTICE: Pages 701193: Changed 8459, Empty 0; Tup 21042082: Vac 0, Keep 0, UnUsed 32056923 - I ran the DELETE script again which purged another 200,000 rows ( approx ) - I proceeded to vacuum, the table in question returned the following stats: NOTICE: Pages 704754: Changed 9599, Empty 0; Tup 14385034: Vac 0, Keep 207650, UnUsed 38884420. - Today I dropped an index off the table, ran the DELETE again, removing 457,636 rows - Vacuum dumped the above NOTICES. Final output for the table is: NOTICE: Index xamefiles_k_key: Pages 187175; Tuples 14521716: Deleted 666334. CPU 8.92s/14.11u sec elapsed 1306.20 sec. - The vacuum is still going along fine. Backups are proceeding without incident ( using pg_dump ) DELETE's are proceeding without incident Hope this is enough information. Kind Regards. -- Paul L Daniels http://www.pldaniels.com Linux/Unix systems Internet Development ICQ#103642862,AOL:cinflex,IRC:inflex A.B.N. 19 500 721 806 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org