Re: 12 hour table vacuums

In response to Ron St-Pierre <ron.pgsql@shaw.ca>:

> Bill Moran wrote:
> > In response to Ron St-Pierre <ron.pgsql@shaw.ca>:
> >
> >
> >> We vacuum only a few of our tables nightly, this one is the last one
> >> because it takes longer to run. I'll probably re-index it soon, but I
> >> would appreciate any advice on how to speed up the vacuum process (and
> >> the db in general).
> >>
> >
> > I doubt anyone can provide meaningful advice without the output of
> > vacuum verbose.

Understood, however I may have spoken too soon.  It appears that Tom
found an obvious issue with your config that seems likely to be the
problem.

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