On Thursday 15 January 2009, Jason Long <mailing.list@supernovasoftware.com>
wrote:
> *I am attempting to vacuum and reindex my database. It keeps timing
> out. See commands and last part of output below. The vacuum or reindex
> only takes a short time to complete normally because the database it
> less than 50 mb. I have the query timeout set to 2 minutes, but I do
> not know if this can affect vacuumdb or reindexdb and the time should
> take much less than 2 minutes anyway.
Obviously it is affecting it and it is taking longer than 2 minutes
regardless of how long you think it "should take". Set it higher for these
tasks or buy a faster server.
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