full vacuum cancelation

=?UTF-8?Q?Viktor_Bojovi=C4=87?= <viktor.bojovic@gmail.com> writes:

my full vacuuming of one table runs still after four days. Is it safe to
cancel it by pressing Ctrl+c?

I assume this is a pre-9.0 Postgres version?

Depending on how far along the vacuum actually is, there's a possibility
that trying to cancel it will cause a PANIC, but that will not damage
your data --- the worst consequence would be killing any other sessions
that are running concurrently.

regards, tom lane

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Viktor Bojović
<viktor.bojovic@gmail.com> wrote:

my full vacuuming of one table runs still after four days. Is it safe to
cancel it by pressing Ctrl+c?

Is it really running (as in progressing with its work) or is it
blocking waiting for a lock? Check the pg_stat_activity view to see
what it is doing. How big is this table?

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

=?UTF-8?Q?Viktor_Bojovi=C4=87?= <viktor.bojovic@gmail.com> writes:

my full vacuuming of one table runs still after four days. Is it safe to
cancel it by pressing Ctrl+c?

I assume this is a pre-9.0 Postgres version?

Depending on how far along the vacuum actually is, there's a possibility
that trying to cancel it will cause a PANIC, but that will not damage
your data --- the worst consequence would be killing any other sessions
that are running concurrently.

regards, tom lane

version is 8.3.x , everything went fine. thanx.

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