Vacuum takes for ever

From: Eildert Groeneveld <eg(at)tzv(dot)fal(dot)de>
To: <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Vacuum takes for ever
Date: 1999-05-17 07:45:49
Message-ID: 99051709490504.00692@salo.tzv.fal.de
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Hello everyone,
in a substantial multi location development project we are using PG to
create a large information system.
After having loaded data in the order of one million records a vaccum took
50h of CPU time on a 350MHz PII (RedHat 5.2, pg 6.4.2). There were no
deletes or anyting like that.

What does vaccum do that takes so long and is there a way to speed this up?

greetings

Eildert Groeneveld
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Animal Science and Animal Behaviour
Mariensee 31535 Neustadt Germany
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www : http://www.tzv.fal.de/~eg/
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