Re: What to do about a vacuum...

"Robert M. Meyer" <rmeyer@installs.com> writes:
> Well, 'kill -INT pid' doesn't seem to have worked.  This is 7.2.1.  We
> really don't want to whack the system but we need to get back online...

You sure you sigint'ed the right process?  I can't see that VACUUM could
take more than a few seconds to respond to a cancel --- it checks before
moving onto each new page.

            regards, tom lane