From what I understand, the new vacuum will mark deleted tuples as 
unused and try to re-use the space if possible.  However, I seem to have 
a huge amount of UnUsed tuples on some large tables.  The table is 
updated 1x each day followed by a vacuum analyze.  

Any idea why the huge UnUsed tuples.  Performance decreases and indexes 
stop being used in favor of full table scans.

VACUUM verbose symbol_Data;
NOTICE:  --Relation symbol_data--
NOTICE:  Pages 767990: Changed 0, Empty 0; Tup 21595176: Vac 0, Keep 0, 
UnUsed 16560877.
    Total CPU 61.94s/6.94u sec elapsed 179.25 sec.
VACUUM

I'm thinking I may just have to copy/rename periodically to keep it down.

This was on psql (PostgreSQL) 7.2rc2.  Will upgrade to 7.2.1, but didn't 
see anything in the Changelogs/History to indicate anything will change.


Thanks,
Michael



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