Re: [SQL] Vacuum

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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.

This vacuum speedup may be in 6.5, thanks to Vadim.

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