On 2014-04-28 09:54:49 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Abhijit Menon-Sen <a...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > In the past, we've had situations where "everything is hung" turned out > > to be because of a script that ran manual VACUUM that was holding some > > lock. It's admittedly not a huge problem, but it might be useful if a > > manual VACUUM could be cancelled the way autovacuum can be. > > I think the real answer to that is "stop using manual VACUUM".
E.g. manually scheduling the full table vacuums to happen during low activity periods is a very good idea on busy servers. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
