Re: Handling large volumes of data

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:42:34AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:

> 12501 ?        S      0:00 /usr/lib/postgresql/8.1/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/postgresql/8.1/main -c
config_file=/etc/postgresql/8.1/main/postgresql.conf
> 12504 ?        D      0:54  \_ postgres: writer process
> 12505 ?        S      1:42  \_ postgres: stats buffer process
> 12506 ?        S      1:03  |   \_ postgres: stats collector process
> 15918 ?        D    1214:28  \_ postgres: autovacuum process   firewall
> 18613 ?        D    130:08  \_ postgres: exilog exilog 146.232.128.197(53907) SELECT
> 18614 ?        S     12:42  \_ postgres: exilog exilog 146.232.128.197(53908) idle
> 31932 ?        D     16:11  \_ postgres: exilog exilog 146.232.128.106(36547) INSERT
> 10380 ?        S      0:00  \_ postgres: log firewall [local] DROP TABLE waiting

The drop table will wait for the autovacuum to finish. You might want to
kill the autovacuum process (this doesn't do any harm, just aborts the
operation so the drop table may proceed).

Bye,

Tino.

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