-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mike Charnoky wrote: > Hi, > At this point, I'm at a loss. I've searched the archives for similar > problems, but none of the suggestions have worked. Is the data in this > table corrupted? Why are both vacuum and reindex failing to complete? > Is there some sort of fine-tuning I should pay attention to? Any help > is much appreciated. At this point, you are in a world of hurt :). If you stop a vacuum you have created a huge mess of dead rows in that table. My suggestion is this to create a new table that is populated from the old table, rename the old table to big_table new, rename new table to old table. Run analyze. Try again. :) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > > Mike > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ UNIQUE NOT NULL Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG6BO5ATb/zqfZUUQRAspCAJ4l6oC2C+JM2IRyvRIn8m5Gs+0ofQCcCFx4 HOjgCaz1wE405GtmTzf/dyw= =x/TT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly