I’m unsure if this is a bug or not but I seem to be experiencing my forum self-ddossing. Once a day the site will go down because it seems to be creating an index: CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY temp_idx_recent_regular_post_search_data ON post_search_data USING GIN(search_data) WHERE NOT private_mes…

As far as I can tell I think it’s resolved. idk how I fixed it but it seemed to have stopped after some updates to newer container revisions. I’m on: 4d20baa8754fd782f01fbf8bf5c687cae846915a My installation is fairly removed from the supported install at this point. The standard install applies b…

This smells like you are running in an under-powered or misconfigured database. How large is your database and what are the database server specs?

@Eviepayne were you able to get this resolved? If not, can you tell us what more you tried and have found out about your problem? Is this a supported install, created using the official install instructions?

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Eviepayne (vladtheimplier) November 17, 2025, 2:26am 3

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8 GB RAM / 4vCPU / 160 GiB Disk / Primary only / TOR1 - PostgreSQL 15
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