"Benjamin Krajmalnik" <k...@illumen.com> wrote:
> I had a very strange occurrence 2 days ago where autovacuum
> appears to have stopped running.
 
What did you see which led you to that conclusion?  Did ps show the
'autovacuum launcher process'?
 
> I did not see any error messages in pg_log.  The problem caused a
> file which is usually around 50Mb but which gets updated
> extensively to grow to 105GB, which in turn brought the server's
> performance down to unusable levels.
 
Were there any long-running transactions showing in
pg_stat_activity?  (That would include transactions showing '<IDLE>
in transaction'.)
 
-Kevin

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