Will do thanks. I ended up dropping and recreating the index and that
seems to have fixed the problem.
Patrick Hatcher
Tom Lane
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Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum hangs
Patrick Hatcher <PHatcher@macys.com> writes:
> Doing a Vacuum Analyze on a table and it's been hanging for at least 2
> hours. I could see no other users hitting the table at the time. This
is
> the second time this has happened on this particular table and I can't
> seem to pin point the issue. If I kill the PID and restart the vacuum
> analyze it works fine. Any suggestion where I start searching?
Next time, please attach to the vacuuming backend with gdb and get a
stack trace. The pg_locks output doesn't tell us anything except that
the problem isn't a lock :-(
regards, tom lane