Re: postgres 6.2 vacuum

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Hornyak Laszlo <kocka(at)tigrasoft(dot)hu>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postgres 6.2 vacuum
Date: 2003-09-22 16:16:19
Message-ID: 20030922091548.P3494@megazone.bigpanda.com
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Hornyak Laszlo wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> We have a database on postgreSQL 6.2 and it is extremely slow, so we
> started vacuum on it. I know it locks the tables, so clients can not use
> it until the process is finished, but it is extremely slow on a 1.800.000
> record table and we don't know how to make it faster. Can anybody help me?
>
> It seems it is writing an index file, but it grows very slowly.

You might be better off dropping indexes, vacuuming and then recreating
the indexes.

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