Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Csaba Nagy wrote:
>
> > Now when the queue tables get 1000 times dead space compared to their
> > normal size, I get performance problems. So tweaking vacuum cost delay
> > doesn't buy me anything, as not vacuum per se is the performance
> > problem, it's long run time for big tables is.
>
> So for you it would certainly help a lot to be able to vacuum the first
> X pages of the big table, stop, release locks, create new transaction,
> continue with the next X pages, lather, rinse, repeat.
But what about index clearing? When do you scan each index?
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