But what I understand that insert update and delete would still work and will not interfere with vacuuming process. Yes we do perform a lot of updates on that particular table which is not vacuuming. Does it mean that it waiting for the lock to be released?
Regards,
Karthik
From: Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, 8 November 2022 at 5:38 PM To: Karthik Jagadish (kjagadis) <kjagadis@cisco.com> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Prasanna Satyanarayanan (prassaty) <prassaty@cisco.com>, Chandruganth Ayyavoo Selvam (chaayyav) <chaayyav@cisco.com>, Jaganbabu M (jmunusam) <jmunusam@cisco.com> Subject: Re: Tables not getting vacuumed in postgres
On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 5:00 PM Karthik Jagadish (kjagadis) <kjagadis@cisco.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > We have a NMS application where we are using postgres as database, what we are noticing is that vacuuming is not happening for certain tables for 2-3 days and eventually the table bloats and disk space is running out. > > What could be the reason for auto vacuuming not happening for certain tables? >
Check if there is any long-running or prepared transaction.
