Simon Riggs wrote:
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>> also, even if it is wrong, can an 'idle-in-transaction' connection that
>> was opened today block the vacuuming of rows that were deleted yesterday?
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> Yes, if the rows were deleted after the connection started.
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to avoid any potential misunderstandings, i will summarize the situation:
1. the vacuum-cronjob refuses to remove dead rows since 1.jan.2008.
2. i know that no postgres-process is older than 7.jan.2008. (from "ps
aux | grep postgres", and except the postgres-system-processes)
how can this happen?
gabor