Re: Vacuum looping?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Steven Flatt" <steven(dot)flatt(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Vacuum looping?
Date: 2007-07-28 14:37:07
Message-ID: 8112.1185633427@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Steven Flatt" <steven(dot)flatt(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> The vacuum then just sat there. What I can't understand is why it went back
> for a second pass of the pkey index? There was nothing writing to the table
> once the vacuum began. Is this behaviour expected?

Yes (hint: the numbers tell me what your maintenance_work_mem setting is).
You should have left it alone, probably, though there seems to be
something funny about your foo_1 index --- why was that so much slower
than the others for the first pass?

regards, tom lane

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