Re: "Healing" a table after massive updates

Brad Nicholson wrote:

> If you want to compact the the table, you either need to use CLUSTER or
> VACUUM FULL + REINDEX.

Actually those are all pretty slow.  If you can do a no-op ALTER TYPE
that rewrites the entire table, it is a lot faster.  Something like

ALTER TABLE tab ALTER COLUMN col TYPE integer;

Assume that column "col" on table "tab" already has type integer.

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