Re: Vacuum-full very slow

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Vacuum-full very slow
Date: 2007-04-25 16:48:53
Message-ID: 25112.1177519733@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> I wonder, though, if you set maintenance_work_mem too high and are
> causing the OS to swap?

AFAIR, vacuum full pays no attention to maintenance_work_mem anyway.
If the data it needs doesn't fit in memory, you lose ...

regards, tom lane

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