Re: [GENERAL] Question about Vacuum and Replication failures in 9.3.5

2014-09-23 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 09/22/2014 10:21 PM, Joel Avni wrote: Its version 9.3.5, whats interesting the that the table grew in size after the vacuum full, which I did to try to see why the auto vacuum wasn¹t working. Please do not top post, it makes it difficult to follow the thread. However, after I stopped the

[GENERAL] Question about Vacuum and Replication failures in 9.3.5

2014-09-22 Thread Joel Avni
I noticed that tables on my master PostgreSQL server were growing, and running vacuum full analyze on them actually made them even bigger. At the same time, a slave PostgreSQL server had fallen behind in trying to replicate, and was stuck in constantly looping over ‘started streaming WAL from

Re: [GENERAL] Question about Vacuum and Replication failures in 9.3.5

2014-09-22 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 09/22/2014 01:42 PM, Joel Avni wrote: I noticed that tables on my master PostgreSQL server were growing, and running vacuum full analyze on them actually made them even bigger. First what version of Postgres are you using? Second VACUUM FULL is usually not recommended for the reason you

Re: [GENERAL] Question about Vacuum and Replication failures in 9.3.5

2014-09-22 Thread Joel Avni
It 9.3.5 and I did the manual vacuum to try to see where the problem might be. On 9/22/14, 4:04 PM, Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@aklaver.com wrote: On 09/22/2014 01:42 PM, Joel Avni wrote: I noticed that tables on my master PostgreSQL server were growing, and running vacuum full analyze on them

Re: [GENERAL] Question about Vacuum and Replication failures in 9.3.5

2014-09-22 Thread Joel Avni
Its version 9.3.5, whats interesting the that the table grew in size after the vacuum full, which I did to try to see why the auto vacuum wasn¹t working. However, after I stopped the PostgreSQL slave instance, then vacuum full did result in a much much smaller size, as expected. So it appears to