Re: Vacuum

Tom,
Is there any way to check whether there is open transaction with a lock
on stucking table while vacuuming and terminate vacuum?
Tom Lane wrote:

> "Summer S. Wilson" <collectonian@eclectic-world.com> writes:
>
>>I'm running PostgreSQL 7.1 with Slackware 8 on a dual processor Dell server.
>>I have a database with 17 tables.  I started VacuumDB with the analyze
>>option on Friday around 3pm...when I came in this morning at 8 it was still
>>not done.  From the verbose info, it seems to be "stuck" on one table,
>>whowrote which is the second largest table (2546 records).
>>
>
> Is it consuming CPU time, or just sitting?  (ps or top would tell you)
> If it's just sitting, I'd bet that there is some other connected backend
> that's holding an open transaction with a lock on that table.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
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