El vie, 13-03-2015 a las 16:33 -0700, Dave Johansen escribió: > I'm using Postgres 8.4 and I would like to cluster a partition but > keep running into issues with locks. CLUSTER requires an Exclusive > Lock and so it gets "stuck behind" running queries that have a Share > Lock on the partition even though they are not using the partition. I > would be fine if the cluster waited until after the existing queries > finished, but this then causes all new queries to back up behind it. I > tried doing "NO INHERIT" to remove the partition while the cluster is > happening, but that also requires an Exclusive Lock and runs into the > same problem. > uff postgresql 8.4, are you from the past? > > So is there some way that I can CLUSTER a partition? I would be fine > with removing the partition while the CLUSTER is happening, if that > makes it possible. There is a extension pg_repack http://pgxn.org/dist/pg_repack/1.3.1/ , that allows to retore order of a table without using a exclusive lock, but i don't know how it behavior with partitioned tables. good luck > > > Thanks, > > Dave -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
