> > 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

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