Re: lazy vacuum and AccessExclusiveLock - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: lazy vacuum and AccessExclusiveLock
Date
Msg-id 20090924184119.GB3914@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to lazy vacuum and AccessExclusiveLock  (Jaromír Talíř <jaromir.talir@nic.cz>)
Responses Re: lazy vacuum and AccessExclusiveLock
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Jaromír Talíř wrote:

> we are facing strange situation with exclusively locked table during
> normal lazy vacuum. There is one big table (66GB) that is heavily
> inserted and updated in our database. Suddenly (after backup and delete
> of almost all records) we are not able to run VACUUM over this table
> because after 50 minutes of work it allocate AccessExclusiveLock on this
> table and all other connections start to timeout.

What version are you running?

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