From: | Sascha Schumann <schumann(at)schell(dot)de> |
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To: | Tim Stoddard <tims(at)dcs(dot)state(dot)ar(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [SQL] Vacuum |
Date: | 1999-03-18 19:58:31 |
Message-ID: | 19990318205831.B11537@schell.de |
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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.
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