[ADMIN] Vacuum issues..

2006-08-21 Thread Eamonn Kent
Hi, I am using PostgreSQL 8.1.4 for an embedded application. For some reason, vacuum is not able to identify rows that are candidates for removal (i.e., mark space as available). Background Info: I observed some performance problems our database seemed to be using an unusually

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum issues..

2006-08-21 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Eamonn Kent wrote: I am using PostgreSQL 8.1.4 for an embedded application. For some reason, vacuum is not able to identify rows that are candidates for removal (i.e., mark space as available). [snip] If I shutdown our application and run a vacuum full, the space is recovered and the

[ADMIN] Vacuum Issues

2004-03-22 Thread Mark M. Huber
Hi all I have had this issue a couple of times now. on Solaris, and on 7.3 of the db. I was did a normal vacuum and then I did a full which hung on a table, I waited for over an hour but there were no activity going on so I ctrl'cd the job in a terminal window, kill off all associated