Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Running 9.1.3 on Linux-x86_64. I'm seeing autovacuum running for the > past 6 hours on a newly created table that only has 1 row of data in > it. This table did exist previously, but was dropped & recreated. > I'm not sure if that might explain this behavior. When I strace the > autovacuum process, I see the following scrolling by non-stop (with no > changes to the file referenced): > select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 21000}) = 0 (Timeout) > open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > open("base/16412/214803_vm", O_RDWR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) This seems to have been noticed and fixed in HEAD: http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git&a=commitdiff&h=b4e0741727685443657b55932da0c06f028fbc00 I wonder whether that should've been back-patched. In the meantime, though, it sure looks like you've got a lot more than one row in there. Perhaps you did umpteen zillion updates on that one row? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general