Re: Vacuum takes forever

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 19:16 +0200, PFC wrote:
>
> > Could this be because of my Cost-Based Vacuum Delay settings ?
>
>     Yeah. It is supposed to slow down VACUUM so it doesn't kill your server,
> but it is not aware of the load. It will also slow it down if there is no
> load. That is its purpose after all ;)
>     If you want fast vacuum, issue SET  vacuum_cost_delay  = 0; before.
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
advise I read on http://www.powerpostgresql.com/PerfList/) which
mentioned a tripling of the the execution time. Not a change from
8201819 ms  to 17729 ms.

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