"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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly