Dan Armbrust escribió:
> What on earth could be going on between PostgreSQL 8.1 and Fedora 6
> that is bloating and/or corrupting the indexes like this?
Postgres 8.1 was slow to vacuum btree indexes. My guess is that your
indexes are so bloated that it takes a lot of time to scan them.
I think the solution here is to vacuum this table far more often.
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