On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:10 PM, APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey list,
>
> After some downtime of my site while completing rigorous database
> maintenance, I wanted to make sure all the databases were fully
> vacuumed and analyzed. I do run autovacuum, but since I made several
> significant changes, I wanted to force a vacuum before I brought my
> site back online.
>
> Here's what happened:
>
> $ vacuumdb --all --full --analyze --no-password
> vacuumdb: vacuuming database "postgres"
> vacuumdb: vacuuming database "web_main"
> vacuumdb: vacuuming of database "web_main" failed: ERROR: huge tuple
>
> I was told on IRC that this may be related to a GIN index. I do have
> several GIN indexes used for full-text searching. I tried googling,
> but nothing much came up.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
Sorry, I failed to mention:
PostgreSQL 8.4.0 on i386-portbld-freebsd7.2, compiled by GCC cc (GCC)
4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD], 32-bit
