On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Nic Chidu <nic@chidu.net> wrote:
Got a situation where a 130 mil rows (137GB) table needs to be brought down in size to 10 mil records (most recent) with the least amount of downtime.
Doing a full vacuum would be faster on: - 120 mil rows deleted and 10 mil active (delete most of them then full vacuum) - 10 mil deleted and 120 mil active. (delete small batches and full vacuum after each delete).
Any other suggestions?
Best recommended way is, take the dump of the table after dropping un-used rows from the table and restored back to the database. Dump and reload would be faster than a VACUUM FULL.