Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes: > Day ago we run 'vacuum verbose analyze;' and now we're observing > strange output (see below). We see many repeated passes through the > table 'usno' and all indices (2).
Nothing strange about it: that's how vacuum deals with large tables. You can reduce the number of passes over the indexes by increasing maintenance_work_mem (aka vacuum_mem). It looks like you have that set to 16MB, which is enough to hold about 2.79M 6-byte CTIDs. When that fills up, we have to go and clean out the corresponding index entries before we resume scanning the heap. It is a bit odd that nothing is getting deleted from "ipix_ind" ... is that a partial index? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])