David Blasby wrote:
> I have a table with about 16,000,000 rows in it.
>
> When I do a:
>
> SELECT * FROM <table> LIMIT 1;
>
> it takes about 10 minutes (thats about how long it takes to do a full
> sequential scan).
>
> I had originally thought that there might be a large number of
> "wasted/retired" tuples in the table so I "vacuum analysed" the
> database. It had no effect. I had a "vacuum full" going on the table
> for 17 hours before I killed it.
Are you sure that the vacuum full was running or sitting there to
wait an idle transaction ?
Regards
Gaetano Mendola