It is safe to kill the vacuum (but not a favored thing to do). I have done it many times when the vacuums have run to long and have started to affect my online production performance. Be sure to just do a kill, as a kill -9 will cause the db to reset all connections to it.
Since you have not vacuumed this db in so long, I would probably suggest vacuuming it table by table so you can have a finer level of control over the vacuum. HTH, Chris ------------------( Forwarded letter 1 follows )--------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:09:29 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ADMIN] Stopping vacuum Hi, We have a very big db that was not vacuumed for a long time. We started vacuum 3 days ago and it has not finished yet. There are some urgent processes that have to be run against the db. Is it safe to kill vacuum? It was started with 'vacuum full analyze' Is there anyway to speed it up at next start? TIA, -- Werner Bohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Infutor de Costa Rica ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
