Re: database bloat,non removovable rows, slow query - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: database bloat,non removovable rows, slow query
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Msg-id 1157140902.4786.34.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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In response to Re: database bloat,non removovable rows, slow query etc...  (Matteo Sgalaberni <sgala@sgala.com>)
List pgsql-performance
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 12:28, Matteo Sgalaberni wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:43:30AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Matteo Sgalaberni <sgala@sgala.com> writes:
> > > 22 daemons that have a persistent connection to this database(all
> > > connection are in "idle"(no transaction opened).
> >
> > You may think that, but you are wrong.
> Ok. I stopped all clients. No connections to this database. Only psql
> console. Made vacuum
> full/freeze all cominations... again dead rows non removable. Nothing
> changed as in production.
>
> this is my postgres config:
>
> http://pastebin.com/781480
>
> I read a lot about bloat tables related to
> not appropriate fsm settings... can be the mine a case of
> misconfiguration of these parameters?

Something is holding a lock, somewhere.

Have you tried shutting down and restarting the database to see if you
can get it to vacuum that way?  You're not in a transaction in psql,
right?

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