Re: [SQL] Can VACUUM, but cannot do VACUUM ANALYZE

Oleg Broytmann wrote: >On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Albert REINER wrote: >> I.e., I can VACUUM, but I cannot do VACUUM ANALYZE.
Whyshould analyze >> do an ABORT? By the way, I do not notice any strange behavior with >> this database, and pg_dump
worksfine on it. > >   Once I saw similar behaviour. I found thta the problem was in broken >strcoll() function in
glibc2;I compiled Postgres with locale support. >After upgrading (Debain GNU/Linux 2.0 to 2.1) I got newer libc, and
the>problem gone away. >   What system/config you are running? OS, compiler, postgres version, >compilation flags?
 

There was also a specific vacuum analyze bug in vc_abort, fixed in 6.5.2.
The error log showed something like

ERROR:  vacuum: can't destroy lock file!
NOTICE:  AbortTransaction and not in in-progress state

See the pgsql-hackers archive around 10th and 13th August.

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