Re: VACUUM FULL vs CLUSTER

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Markus Benne <markus(at)m-bass(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: VACUUM FULL vs CLUSTER
Date: 2005-09-23 14:20:27
Message-ID: 20050923142027.GC2298@wolff.to
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 14:53:19 -0400,
Markus Benne <markus(at)m-bass(dot)com> wrote:
> I have a table that is purged by 25% each night. I'd like to do a
> vacuum nightly after the purge to reclaim the space, but I think I'll
> still need to do a vacuum full weekly.
>
> Would there be any benefit to doing a cluster instead of the vacuum?

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).

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