Re: the right time to vacuum database?

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:07:03AM -0700, Charles.Hou wrote:
> i use the VACUUM VERBOSE a table , but it had been hold 10 minutes . i
> must use the linux command " kill " to exit the VACUUM.
> after i kill this PID, the PostgreSql have been restart
> automatically.

Maybe it was doing work.  Why did you kill it?  If there is a problem
on that table, I wouldn't be surprised that it'd take 10 minutes. 
You just caused all the work it started to do to be undone, and to
cause more bloat.  But. . .

> DETAIL:  0 dead row versions cannot be removed yet.

. . . this suggests you don't have bloat on that table at least.  So
it sounds to me like your disk use is going up because you have a lot
of data.

A

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