> > Is it reasonable to cancel and restart the vacuum process periodically > > (say every 12 hours) until it manages to complete the work? It takes
> > about 2 hours to do the table scan, and should get in about 10 hours > > of index work each round. If we started the vacuum with the indexes, remembered a lowest xid per index, we could then vacuum the heap up to the lowest of those xids, no ? We could then also vacuum each index separately. Andreas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq