On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli.tech@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. I've just discovered the check_postgres utility and am running > all the tests against my database. > > The "last_analyze" test comes out critical - many tables unanalyzed > for 8 weeks. have those tables been modified at all? this is only an issue if the database's understanding of the table is different from reality AFIAK. > P.S. I checked the PostgreSQL logs, and in the last week, I just have > three messages with "vacuum" in them: > (I am running at default log levels) > > 2010-07-20 02:05:05 PDT ERROR: canceling autovacuum task > 2010-07-20 02:05:05 PDT CONTEXT: automatic vacuum of table > "mydb.pg_catalog.pg_listener" > > 2010-07-20 07:27:14 PDT ERROR: canceling autovacuum task > 2010-07-20 07:27:14 PDT CONTEXT: automatic vacuum of table > "mydb._slony_cluster.sl_event" > > 2010-07-20 07:27:53 PDT ERROR: canceling autovacuum task > 2010-07-20 07:27:53 PDT CONTEXT: automatic vacuum of table > "mydb._slony_cluster.sl_log_2" this is normal. note that slony abuses the listener notify system, and autovac punts to avoid messing with user sessions. 9.0 has a much cleaner async notify mechanism so won't have this issue. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general