Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum issues..

2006-08-21 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Eamonn Kent wrote: I am using PostgreSQL 8.1.4 for an embedded application. For some reason, vacuum is not able to identify rows that are candidates for removal (i.e., mark space as available). [snip] If I shutdown our application and run a vacuum full, the space is recovered and the databa

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum Issues

2004-03-22 Thread Tom Lane
"Mark M. Huber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was did a normal vacuum and then I did a full which hung on a table, Sounds to me like some other transaction is holding a lock on that table. In recent releases you can look in the pg_locks system view to see who's got the lock.