| From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Hornyak Laszlo <kocka(at)tigrasoft(dot)hu> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: postgres 6.2 vacuum |
| Date: | 2003-09-23 16:53:36 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0309231053050.12142-100000@css120.ihs.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.
>
> I know we should use 7.3 at least, we are working on it, but we need to
> survive this day with 6.2 :(
In all honesty, it'd probably be faster to convert than to wait for that
vacuum to finish.
seriously.
6.2 is like the model A of Postgresql versions.
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