Re: applications hang when calling 'vacuum'

Denis Perchine <dyp@perchine.com>

From: Denis Perchine <dyp@perchine.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-04-27T03:23:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thursday 26 April 2001 23:36, Barnes, Sandy (Sandra) wrote:
> > We are currently calling 'vacuum' from within our code, using the psql++
> > PgDatabase ExecCommandOk() to send the SQL statement 'vacuum'.  I seems
> > to work when we only have one process running, but when two processes
> > (both invoking the vacuum) are running it immediately hangs.  Some
> > postgres processes exist... one 'idle' and one 'VACUUM'.  The
> > applications hang. I tried using the PgTransaction class to invoke the
> > SQL but received an error stating that vacuum cannot be run in a
> > transaction.
> > Any ideas?

Can confirm this. This is also the case on my systems. I already told about 
this some time ago. There was no reply...

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Sincerely Yours,
Denis Perchine

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