On Friday 09 October 2009 08:22:52 pm Tom Lane wrote: > Mike Diehl <mdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > I'm doing a routine vacuum on my database and it seems to be getting > > "stuck." > > > > I've got a "servers" table with only a few rows and columns in it and > > this is what vacuum has to say: > > > > # VACUUM ANALYZE VERBOSE servers; > > INFO: vacuuming "public.servers" > > INFO: scanned index "servers_id" to remove 19200 row versions > > DETAIL: CPU 0.02s/0.01u sec elapsed 0.03 sec. > > INFO: scanned index "servers_name" to remove 19200 row versions > > DETAIL: CPU 0.03s/0.01u sec elapsed 0.05 sec. > > > > The problem is that it's been stalled for several minutes. It's > > beginning to sound like a hard drive problem. Any other ideas? > > Maybe it's waiting for some other session to release a page-level lock. > Have you got anything else running in the database, and if so what is > that doing? > > regards, tom lane I restarted Postgres and re-ran the vacuum. All seems OK now. Thank you for your time. I guess I should have refrained from jumping to conclusions. -- Take care and have fun, Mike Diehl. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general