Re: Reindex does not finish 8.2.6

2008/3/13, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>:
> Clodoaldo escribió:
>
> > 2008/3/13, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>:
>  > > 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