On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 04:18:50PM -0400, Joseph Shraibman wrote: > I'm running postgres 8.0.8. I have a table that is updated very > rapidly, so I vacuum it every 10 minutes. The problem is that I > sometimes have transactions that hang out for a long time without doing > anything. These transactions are preventing VACUUM from cleaning up > tuples that were created and then deleted in transactions that started > way after the hanging one. Is there any way to fix this? Sure, don't keep transactions open for so long. Is there a particular reason you do that? The problem is that the "old" transaction can see effects of later started transactions, so VACUUM can't delete the later stuff either... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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