Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > > If the table is already bloated, a VACUUM won't usually shrink it. It > only makes the space available for reuse, but a sequential scan still > needs to go through a lot of pages. > > CLUSTER on the other hand repacks the tuples and gets rid of all the > unused space on pages. You need to run CLUSTER or VACUUM FULL once to > shrink the relation, but after that frequent-enough VACUUMs should keep > the table size down. >
Ok, thanks for the advice. We will try this and will come back with more information. -- Rafael Martinez, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Center for Information Technology Services University of Oslo, Norway PGP Public Key: http://folk.uio.no/rafael/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
