Rafael Domiciano wrote: Hei > I need some help or just some hints. I am having problems with vacuum > full in one table only: "clifatura". > That table has today around 7 million rows. > How big is the database? > I scheduled on the server a cron job to run VACUUM FULL every day at 23 > P.M, but on the following day, at 8 A.M. vacuum is yet working on > "clifatura"; so I have to kill vacuum. > Do you have any locks in this table/database that prevent the vacuum to be started? Why do you use VACUUM FULL everyday? This will lock your database until it finish. I can count with one hand the times we had to run vacuum full in our systems in the last 6 years. Use a normal vacuum analyze if 'autovacuum' is not enough for you. -- Rafael Martinez, <r.m.guerrero@xxxxxxxxxxx> Center for Information Technology Services University of Oslo, Norway PGP Public Key: http://folk.uio.no/rafael/ -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin