Hi Tom,
Yep I know its out of date but thank you for replying anyways :)On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hanns Hartman <hwhartman@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I am running postgres 8.3.17 on a RedHat linux derivative using a mips64
> architecture.
You realize of course that 8.3 is long out of support ...
> I've recently noticed some odd autovacuum behavior.
> Recently we've had some systems deployed with the system clock set to the
> year 2016. Postgres was installed with that date and things were fine
> until a user noticed the incorrect date. They reset the system time back
> to 2015 and then we started seeing weird behavior where the autovacuum
> proccess does not seem to be maintaining the disk space.
I would not be surprised if the autovacuum launcher thinks that it doesn't
need to touch that database again until 2016. A quick DB restart should
fix it.
regards, tom lane
