block and row are always configured on - they are my friend :)
thanks
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 13:44, Csaba Nagy wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 18:39, jody brownell wrote:
> > that is exactly what I am seeing, one process, no change, always in idle while the others are constantly
> > changing their state.
> >
> > looks like someone opened a tx then is blocking on a queue lock or something. dang.
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> Don't forget to check the statistics collector settings (see below), if
> that is not correct then autovacuum is indeed not working correctly... I
> should have put that on the beginning of the mail so you won't overlook
> it ;-)
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> > >
> > > Oh, just occured to me... in order to use autovacuum you also need to
> > > enable the statistics collector on row level:
> > >
> > > stats_start_collector = on
> > > stats_row_level = on
> > >
> > > See also:
> > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/maintenance.html#AUTOVACUUM
> > >
> > > This was not mentioned in the settings in your original post, so I guess
> > > you didn't touch that, and I think they are disabled by default.
> > >
> > > If this is disabled, you should enable it and "pg_ctl reload ....", that
> > > should fix the problem.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Csaba.
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