Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > Yea, I tested that - it does help in the integer case. But the bigger > contributors are the loop over the attributes, and especially the access > to the datum's compression method. Particularly the latter seems hard to > avoid.
So maybe we should just dump the promise that VACUUM FULL will recompress
everything? I'd be in favor of that actually, because it seems 100%
outside the charter of either VACUUM FULL or CLUSTER.
regards, tom lane
