On 4/21/2010 2:38 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> So, I had a query that blocked all updates going out of the sl_log_2
> table, and it's 13Gig.  sl_log_1 is empty.
> 
> IS the logswitch_finish() command an acceptable method for forcing the
> replication engine to switch from 2 to 1 so I can vacuum full 2?

It is completely safe to call logswitch_finish() at any time. It may or 
may not actually do something.

In your case, I presume the value of sl_log_status is 2. This means it 
is waiting for sl_log_2 to become empty and once that happens, it will 
truncate it and set sl_log_status to 0.


Jan

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