Re: Reindex does not finish 8.2.6

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Clodoaldo
<clodoaldo.pinto.neto@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Could this be a problem with a bloated table that needs a vacuum full?
 I'd try that.