Re: vacuum full table - internals in 8.3

Kieren Scott wrote:

I'm trying to understand what is going on internally when doing a VACUUM FULL on a table in 8.3.

The info you've gotten from Kevin is all correct, but you may find some of the additional trivia in this area collected at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/VACUUM_FULL interesting as well.

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