Skip site navigation (1) Skip section navigation (2)

Peripheral Links

Header And Logo

PostgreSQL
| The world's most advanced open source database.

Site Navigation

Search for
  Advanced Search

Re: 3-days-long vacuum of 20GB table



Jeffrey Baker escribió:

> That's rather more like it.  I guess I always imagined that VACUUM was
> a sort of linear process, not random, and that it should proceed at
> sequential scan speeds.

It's linear for the table, but there are passes for indexes which are
random in 8.1.  That code was rewritten by Heikki Linnakangas to do
linear passes for indexes in 8.2 AFAIR.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.



Home | Main Index | Thread Index

Privacy Policy | PostgreSQL Archives hosted by Command Prompt, Inc. | Designed by tinysofa
Copyright © 1996 – 2008 PostgreSQL Global Development Group