Rafael Domiciano wrote:
Hei
> I need some help or just some hints. I am having problems with vacuum
> full in one table only: "clifatura".
> That table has today around 7 million rows.
>
How big is the database?
> I scheduled on the server a cron job to run VACUUM FULL every day at 23
> P.M, but on the following day, at 8 A.M. vacuum is yet working on
> "clifatura"; so I have to kill vacuum.
>
Do you have any locks in this table/database that prevent the vacuum to
be started?
Why do you use VACUUM FULL everyday? This will lock your database until
it finish. I can count with one hand the times we had to run vacuum full
in our systems in the last 6 years.
Use a normal vacuum analyze if 'autovacuum' is not enough for you.
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Rafael Martinez, <r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no>
Center for Information Technology Services
University of Oslo, Norway
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