Re: selects during vacuum

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:09:28PM -0400, Joe Maldonado wrote:

>     Vacuum analyze is taking a really long time on a fairly small table and
> during the time the vacuum is running all "select * from <the table>;"
> seems to hang untill the vacuum is done.  Any help on this matter would
> be greatly appreciated...

Try to reindex the table.  That should speed up the vacuuming.

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