Greetings, I've got an 8.1.10 instance running on Linux-i686. The system hosts 5 databases, all of which get vacuumed via a cronjob 3 times a day. All of a sudden, the vacuum job for 1 of the databases is hanging indefinitely. It normally finishes in under 5 minutes. There are no errors in the output, it just stops producing any output. The command that I'm running is "vacuumdb -v -z -f -d inventory". I also tried removing the -z and -f options to see if that would at least get it to complete, but that had no impact. Here's the tail end of the output, leading up to the hang: INFO: vacuuming "public.cuhc" INFO: index "cuhc_system_key" now contains 0 row versions in 4 pages DETAIL: 1 index pages have been deleted, 1 are currently reusable. CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec. INFO: index "cuhc_system_index" now contains 0 row versions in 4 pages DETAIL: 1 index pages have been deleted, 1 are currently reusable. CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec. INFO: index "cuhc_syststamp_index" now contains 0 row versions in 4 pages DETAIL: 1 index pages have been deleted, 1 are currently reusable. CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec. INFO: index "cuhc_syststamprebooted_index" now contains 0 row versions in 4 pages DETAIL: 1 index pages have been deleted, 1 are currently reusable. CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec. INFO: "cuhc": found 0 removable, 0 nonremovable row versions in 0 pages DETAIL: 0 dead row versions cannot be removed yet. There were 0 unused item pointers. 0 pages are entirely empty. CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec. INFO: vacuuming "pg_toast.pg_toast_85894" INFO: index "pg_toast_85894_index" now contains 0 row versions in 1 pages DETAIL: 0 index pages have been deleted, 0 are currently reusable. CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec. INFO: "pg_toast_85894": found 0 removable, 0 nonremovable row versions in 0 pages DETAIL: 0 dead row versions cannot be removed yet. There were 0 unused item pointers. 0 pages are entirely empty. CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec. Anyone have any suggestions on what to try to debug this? thanks! -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general