Re: Handling large volumes of data - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tino Schwarze
Subject Re: Handling large volumes of data
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Msg-id 20080408095500.GB29990@easy2.in-chemnitz.de
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In response to Handling large volumes of data  (Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>)
Responses Re: Handling large volumes of data  (Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>)
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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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