On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Subhasis Bhattacharya <subhasis.bhattacharya@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks Craig, > > We have plans to upgrade to a later version of postgres, but that could take > a while. > > Meantime, I wanted to understand whether the autovacuum failure could be > linked to the fact that the stats collector could not update (rename) the > pgstats file? It's important to understand that Craig is implying you're getting bitten by a bug in an early version of pg 8.3 that can be fixed by updating to a later version of pg 8.3. Updating within a minor version number like that causes minimum down time as it simply copies in new binary files and restarts the db with no need for upgrading the /data directory. On most debian based boxes it's as simple as: sudo apt-get update or sudo apt-get upgrade -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
