On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Hornyak Laszlo wrote: > Hi all! > > We have a database on postgreSQL 6.2 and it is extremely slow, so we > started vacuum on it. I know it locks the tables, so clients can not use > it until the process is finished, but it is extremely slow on a 1.800.000 > record table and we don't know how to make it faster. Can anybody help me? > > It seems it is writing an index file, but it grows very slowly. > > I know we should use 7.3 at least, we are working on it, but we need to > survive this day with 6.2 :(
In all honesty, it'd probably be faster to convert than to wait for that vacuum to finish. seriously. 6.2 is like the model A of Postgresql versions. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org