Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum Full is *hideously* slow!

2008-11-16 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 06:05:40AM +0800, Phoenix Kiula wrote: > How long should cluster take on a db that's about 5.5GB in size? Is it > worth doing on a production db? The db is running fast now anyway, so > the only reason I am even thinking about this is because of the > results of a VACUUM ANA

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum Full is *hideously* slow!

2008-11-15 Thread Phoenix Kiula
Thanks Scott. Could be my I/O as I am on 15k Raptor SATA drives with RAID 1 only. Anyway, reindexing happened fast (12 minutes) and things are now humming along. How long should cluster take on a db that's about 5.5GB in size? Is it worth doing on a production db? The db is running fast now anywa

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum Full is *hideously* slow!

2008-11-15 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Phoenix Kiula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > Per this thread: > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-11/msg00608.php -- I > think I understood that the time had come for my db to have a VACUUM > FULL. (Regular autovacuum etc is working) > > I know

[GENERAL] Vacuum Full is *hideously* slow!

2008-11-15 Thread Phoenix Kiula
Hi. Per this thread: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-11/msg00608.php -- I think I understood that the time had come for my db to have a VACUUM FULL. (Regular autovacuum etc is working) I know a full vacuum is slow. A simple google search had suggested so. But I had no idea it w