2008/3/13, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Clodoaldo escribió: > > > 2008/3/13, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Clodoaldo escribió: > > > > > > > > > > Now what is happening is that reindex does not finish even with a > > > > small 6,500 rows table and after a reboot. In top there is no CPU or > > > > memory usage by postmaster and vmstat shows no disk activity. > > > > > > Hmm, are you vacuuming the system catalogs appropriately? > > > > If a simple vacuum in instead of a vacuum full is appropriate then yes > > the db is vacuumed every three hours after each bulk insert/delete. > > > As superuser? Take a look at whether relations are skipped during > vacuum.
Now I vacuumed with superuser. > Try vacuuming pg_class, pg_index, pg_attribute manually and see if that > makes the problem go away. It does not go away. > If it doesn't, then my guess is that it's > time to see what the hanging process is doing -- try an strace on it, or > attaching it with gdb and getting a backtrace. (I hope your binaries > have debug symbols). Will try it. Regards, Clodoaldo Pinto Neto -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
