"Shane Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Incidentally, how many passes of a table can vacuum make!

Lots, especially if the table hasn't been vacuumed in a long time...
Perhaps you should be using a higher maintenance_work_mem?
(Um, in 7.4 make that vacuum_mem.)  Larger work memory translates
directly to fewer passes over the indexes.

                        regards, tom lane

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