>>> "Wayne Conrad" <wconrad@yagni.com> wrote:
> "VACUUM FULL ANALYZE VERBOSE" on a "deadlocks"
> "VACUUM VERBOSE ANALYZE" (without the "FULL") does not
You do realize that FULL should not be part of normal maintenance,
right? It is sometimes useful to recover from table bloat when normal
maintenance fails. Although it is almost always much slower than
CLUSTER, it has the advantage of not requiring disk space for a second
copy of the table, but it requires a REINDEX afterward to correct the
index bloat it causes. If you are doing a good job of normal
maintenance, you never, ever should be running VACUUM FULL.
None of the above means you haven't found a problem worth looking at
-- I'm not trying to comment on that; but unless you are in the middle
of recovery from abnormal bloat, you may be able to dodge the problem
by correcting your maintenance practices.
-Kevin