Vacuum analyze with 7 millions records ... takes 1 hour !

Hi,

I have a table (not so big) 7 millions records ... about 13 fields
inside and 5 indexes ...
I'm usign a Bi-Pentium III 800 Mhz with 1Gb under Linux kernel 2.4.10
... and the database do nothing else !

Inside this table I insert about 10000 records every days, and have to
update some records (about 3 to 10 000) by day.

So if I want a good timing access to my database I have to vacuum
analyze it every day ...

But the vacuum analyze take about 1 hour ... exactly 59 minutes ... ;) I
hour the table is locked ... so impossible to be used :(

Do you have any idea to get a better result for the vacuum ... ? And why
it take 1 hour ?

Or any solutionq to get good timing and better results ? ;)

Looking for your reply,

Regards,
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Hervé