Re: VACUUM FULL vs CLUSTER

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Stef <svb(at)ucs(dot)co(dot)za>
Cc: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>, Markus Benne <markus(at)m-bass(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: VACUUM FULL vs CLUSTER
Date: 2005-09-23 17:03:05
Message-ID: 20050923170304.GC7575@surnet.cl
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On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 06:16:44PM +0200, Stef wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III mentioned :
> => If you have a proper FSM setting you shouldn't need to do vacuum fulls
> => (unless you have an older version of postgres where index bloat might
> => be an issue).
>
> What version of postgres was the last version that had
> the index bloat problem?

The worst problems were solved in 7.4. There are problems in certain
limited circumstances even with current releases.

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