Clodoaldo escribió: > 2008/3/13, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Clodoaldo escribió: > > > > > > > Now what is happening is that reindex does not finish even with a > > > small 6,500 rows table and after a reboot. In top there is no CPU or > > > memory usage by postmaster and vmstat shows no disk activity. > > > > Hmm, are you vacuuming the system catalogs appropriately? > > If a simple vacuum in instead of a vacuum full is appropriate then yes > the db is vacuumed every three hours after each bulk insert/delete. As superuser? Take a look at whether relations are skipped during vacuum. Try vacuuming pg_class, pg_index, pg_attribute manually and see if that makes the problem go away. If it doesn't, then my guess is that it's time to see what the hanging process is doing -- try an strace on it, or attaching it with gdb and getting a backtrace. (I hope your binaries have debug symbols). -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
