On 7/8/21 8:38 AM, Keith Fiske wrote:
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> Vacuum also keeps the freespacemap and visibility maps updated as well.
> Not quite as critical for insert-only tables, but it can still influence
> query planning. Having an up to date visibility-map can help index-only
> scans happen more frequently if possible.
We've got INSERT-only tables, and the query planner only used sequential
scans (on a freshly loaded 6TB database) until I vacuumed all tables,
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