Re: [SQL] Killing Postmaster

2001-03-30 Thread A James Lewis
I have a vacuum which has been running for about a week, is that too long? On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Poul L. Christiansen wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Graham Vickrage wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > What is the correct way of killing postgres 7.0 on redhat linux. > > "man pg_ctl". > > > > > Is there a

Re: [SQL] Killing Postmaster

2001-03-30 Thread A James Lewis
It's not a machine I look at often, and I realiased that it's database had never been vacuumed and had grown to about 2 gigs It is a dual PII 450, with 384 megs and U2W disks... but I started the vacuum about 10 days ago.. and when I checked it hadn't finished... I guess I'll kill it and t

Re: [SQL] Killing Postmaster

2001-03-28 Thread Poul L. Christiansen
A week? That sounds much too long to me (assuming that you have PostgresSQL funning on fairly good hardware). There could be something wrong with at specific table. Try to vacuum a table one at the time using "vacuum verbose MyTable", and report any error you may find. I don't understand the ou

Re: [SQL] Killing Postmaster

2001-03-28 Thread Poul L. Christiansen
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Graham Vickrage wrote: > Hi All, > > What is the correct way of killing postgres 7.0 on redhat linux. "man pg_ctl". > > Is there a reason why vacuum hangs on a DB with about 1.5 million rows? Vacuum can take a long time with 1.5M records. How long have you waited? Is the

[SQL] Killing Postmaster

2001-03-28 Thread Graham Vickrage
Hi All, What is the correct way of killing postgres 7.0 on redhat linux. Is there a reason why vacuum hangs on a DB with about 1.5 million rows? Cheers Graham winmail.dat ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives?