Re: vacuum process taking more than 33 hours

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 02:44:15PM +0000, Ezequiel Luis Pellettieri wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Why don't you try droping all indexes exept but the constraints ones for
> each table.

I don't have the problem, so I don't know whether that will help.

> then you'll free aprox half of DB size. then re-create indexes,  one by one.
> and finally you can perform a full vacuum.
> 
> that worked for me. :)

On some versions of Postgres, it will, but AFAIK the latest versions
don't have the same index bloat problems.  Moreover, if your vacuum
regime is right, you should _never_ have to VACUUM FULL.

A


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