Forgot to mention: I'm using 9.0.3 > Usually a manual vacuum cancels a running autovacuum task. Not in my case - however, the autovac does seem to be in a waiting state. > You should find a notice about the cancelation in th logfile. > > > current_query | vacuum analyze > > age | 11:46:57.245568 > > Where is the age column from? > It's not in pg_stat_activity. age(now(), query_start) >> Is one of the two processes waiting=t in pg_stat_activity? ah, there it is. Yes, the autovac is waiting. >> > I'm trying to vacuum the table as quickly as possible so a manual >> > vacuum seems to be in order as my understanding (and experience) >> > is that the autovac is a hell of a lot slower to mitigate impact >> > on general performance. >> >> Tune the autovacuum settings, especially the scale factors of the >> tables in question and the cost limit. >> Is autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit != -1 ? >> This could be one reason, why manual vacuum is faster. autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit is on default (-1). -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
