| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | sas(at)schell(dot)de (Sascha Schumann) |
| Cc: | tims(at)dcs(dot)state(dot)ar(dot)us, pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [SQL] Vacuum |
| Date: | 1999-03-18 20:14:16 |
| Message-ID: | 199903182014.PAA07361@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 08:41:21AM -0600, Tim Stoddard wrote:
> > When I delete 2k-3k of records from a table the vacuum process seems
> > to take forever. I have let the vacuum run for 24 hours before with
> > not luck.
> >
> > Can someone one explain to me what is going on?
>
> Funny, there is/was just a whole thread about that on hackers. There seem to
> be some agreement that this will be reworked/faster in 6.6, but you cannot
> avoid it currently. The main cause for this is the usage of indeces.
>
> Did you pass -o -F to the postmaster? It can improve the speed of PostgreSQL
> dramatically.
This vacuum speedup may be in 6.5, thanks to Vadim.
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