Re: [BUGS] 8.2rc1: vacuum full fills up disk space

2006-11-27 Thread Thomas H.
well yes, as the system is "live", users are browsing the website. but all queries that try to access the table in question are stalled at the moment. when querying server status i'm seeing lots of queries that are waiting for access to the table. would vacuum freeze be faster? Vacuum freeze

Re: [BUGS] 8.2rc1: vacuum full fills up disk space

2006-11-27 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Thomas H. wrote: 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? well yes, as the system is "live", users are brows

Re: [BUGS] 8.2rc1: vacuum full fills up disk space

2006-11-26 Thread Thomas H.
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? well yes, as the system is "live", users are browsing the website. b

Re: [BUGS] 8.2rc1: vacuum full fills up disk space

2006-11-26 Thread Tom Lane
"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 diskspa

[BUGS] 8.2rc1: vacuum full fills up disk space

2006-11-26 Thread Thomas H.
this somehow sounds buggy: there's this table forum.posts which had 224mb table size, 145mb toast table size and 176mb indexes size (aproximately 60'000 rows). as i was doing some updates of all the records, i've issued a VACUUM FULL ... this was merely 60min ago, and it hasn't yet finished...