[PERFORM] Vacuum becomes slow

2005-06-30 Thread Martin Lesser
Hi, the time needed for a daily VACUUM on a table with about 28 mio records increases from day to day. What's the best way to avoid this? A full vacuum will probably take too much time, are there other ways to keep vacuum performant? The database was updated to postgres-8.0 on Jun 04 this year.

Re: [PERFORM] Vacuum becomes slow

2005-06-30 Thread Tom Lane
Martin Lesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the time needed for a daily VACUUM on a table with about 28 mio records increases from day to day. My guess is that the original timings were artificially low because the indexes were in nearly perfect physical order, and as that condition degrades over