Karl Wright wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >Karl Wright wrote:
> >
> >>(b) the performance of individual queries had already degraded 
> >>significantly in the same manner as what I'd seen before.
> >
> >You didn't answer whether you had smaller, more frequently updated
> >tables that need more vacuuming.  This comment makes me think you do.  I
> >think what you should be looking at is whether you can forget vacuuming
> >the whole database in one go, and make it more granular.
> 
> I am afraid that I did answer this.  My largest tables are the ones 
> continually being updated.  The smaller ones are updated only infrequently.

Can you afford to vacuum them in parallel?

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Alvaro Herrera                  http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/5ZYLFMCVHXC
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