On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Do you have a vacuum in cron or something like that? As Tom says, if it > had been autovacuum, it should have been cancelled automatically (else > we've got a bug); but something invoking vacuum externally wouldn't > have, so what you describe is what we would expect. > then we have a bug (at least in 8.3, haven't tried in 8.4)... i see this a month ago, an autovacuum blocking a lot of concurrent updates and selects... once i pg_cancel_backend() the autovacuum process the other ones starting to move -- Atentamente, Jaime Casanova Soporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL Asesoría y desarrollo de sistemas Guayaquil - Ecuador Cel. +59387171157 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
