2008/3/13, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:> 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. Now I vacuumed with superuser. > Try vacuuming pg_class, pg_index, pg_attribute manually and see if that> makes the problem go away. It does not 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). Will try it. Regards, Clodoaldo Pinto Neto -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)To make changes to your subscription:http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general