On Wednesday January 12 2005 11:10, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > I believe the problem is occurring if the open transaction is older than > the tuples that could be vacuumed. The MVCC system means that as long > as a transaction that started X hours ago is still open, the tuples that > have been freed since then can't vacuumed because they need to stay > visible for that transaction. Is it possible via SQL query to tell how long a transaction has been open? Ed ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html