On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 11:18 +0100, Gábor Farkas wrote: > Simon Riggs wrote: > > > >> also, even if it is wrong, can an 'idle-in-transaction' connection that > >> was opened today block the vacuuming of rows that were deleted yesterday? > > > > Yes, if the rows were deleted after the connection started. > > > > to avoid any potential misunderstandings, i will summarize the situation: > > 1. the vacuum-cronjob refuses to remove dead rows since 1.jan.2008. > > 2. i know that no postgres-process is older than 7.jan.2008. (from "ps > aux | grep postgres", and except the postgres-system-processes) > > how can this happen? They might be different set of dead rows, just roughly the same numbers each day. -- Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant http://www.2ndQuadrant.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/
