On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 12:27 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I still think that the autovac is dying before completing the task. Did > > you investigate whether there are "ERROR" messages coming from > > autovacuum? No PG crashes would happen.
There are no ERROR messages at all. Sample log snippet: 2008-04-30 12:03:36 EDT LOG: autovacuum: processing database "template1" 2008-04-30 12:04:36 EDT LOG: autovacuum: processing database "itvtrackdatapos" 2008-04-30 12:05:36 EDT LOG: autovacuum: processing database "template1" 2008-04-30 12:06:36 EDT LOG: autovacuum: processing database "itvtrackdatapos" 2008-04-30 12:07:36 EDT LOG: autovacuum: processing database "template1" 2008-04-30 12:08:36 EDT LOG: autovacuum: processing database "itvtrackdatapos" 2008-04-30 12:09:36 EDT LOG: autovacuum: processing database "template1" 2008-04-30 12:10:36 EDT LOG: autovacuum: processing database "itvtrackdatapos" > I'm noticing though that the 8.1 logic pays attention to both > datvacuumxid and datfrozenxid. Could we see the age() of both of > those columns for all the databases. The are all identical: itvtrackdata=> select datname,age(datfrozenxid),age(datvacuumxid) from pg_database; datname | age | age ------------------+-----------+----------- postgres | 295995059 | 295995059 itvtrackdata | 295995059 | 295995059 itvtrackdatauser | 295995059 | 295995059 itvtrackdatapos | 295995059 | 295995059 template1 | 295995059 | 295995059 template0 | 295995059 | 295995059 (6 rows) itvtrackdata=> --Ian -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin