> Or... It seems to me that we have been observing something on the order > of 10x-20x slowdown for vacuuming a table. I think this is WAY > overcompensating for the original problems, and would cause it's own > problem as mentioned above. Since the granularity of delay seems to be > the problem can we do more work between delays? Instead of sleeping > after every page (I assume this is what it's doing) perhaps we should > sleep every 10 pages,
I also think doing more than one page per sleep is advantageous since it would still allow the OS to do it's readahead optimizations. I suspect those would fall flat if only one page is fetched per sleep. Andreas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match