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Re: Vacuum takes forever



On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 07:56:07PM +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
> Thanks, I tried it and it worked. I did not know that changing this
> setting would result in such a performance drop ( I just followed an

It's not a performance drop.  It's an on-purpose delay of the
functionality, introduced so that _other_ transactions don't get I/O
starved.  ("Make vacuum fast" isn't in most cases an interesting
goal.)

A

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