On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin
<atsaloli.tech@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. I've just discovered the check_postgres utility and am running
> all the tests against my database.
>
> The "last_analyze" test comes out critical - many tables unanalyzed
> for 8 weeks.
have those tables been modified at all? this is only an issue if the
database's understanding of the table is different from reality AFIAK.
> P.S. I checked the PostgreSQL logs, and in the last week, I just have
> three messages with "vacuum" in them:
> (I am running at default log levels)
>
> 2010-07-20 02:05:05 PDT ERROR: canceling autovacuum task
> 2010-07-20 02:05:05 PDT CONTEXT: automatic vacuum of table
> "mydb.pg_catalog.pg_listener"
>
> 2010-07-20 07:27:14 PDT ERROR: canceling autovacuum task
> 2010-07-20 07:27:14 PDT CONTEXT: automatic vacuum of table
> "mydb._slony_cluster.sl_event"
>
> 2010-07-20 07:27:53 PDT ERROR: canceling autovacuum task
> 2010-07-20 07:27:53 PDT CONTEXT: automatic vacuum of table
> "mydb._slony_cluster.sl_log_2"
this is normal. note that slony abuses the listener notify system,
and autovac punts to avoid messing with user sessions. 9.0 has a much
cleaner async notify mechanism so won't have this issue.
merlin