Big number of "unused" pages as reported by VACUUM

Hello!

Some time ago I've got troubles with performance of my PG.
After investigation I had found that the most probable reason was the big
number of "unused" pages. Below follows what VACUUM reported:

=======================
vacuum verbose goods;
NOTICE:  --Relation goods--
NOTICE:  Pages 15068: Changed 0, Empty 0; Tup 16157: Vac 0, Keep 0, UnUsed 465938.
=======================
select count(*) from goods;
 count
-------
 16157
=======================

The same schema with the almost identical number of rows gives completely
different result on another table:
=======================
vacuum verbose goods;
NOTICE:  --Relation goods--
NOTICE:  Pages 912: Changed 0, Empty 0; Tup 11209: Vac 0, Keep 0, UnUsed
19778.
=======================
select count(*) from goods;
 count
-------
 11209
=======================

Two questions:

1) Where to seek the real source of the enormous big number of unused
pages?

2) How to shrink the table (i.e. how can I get rid those unused pages)?

PG: was 7.2.1, now 7.2.2.

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