Re: Buglist - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Buglist
Date
Msg-id 200308271505.h7RF5l527397@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Buglist  (Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>)
List pgsql-general
Vivek Khera wrote:
> >>>>> "BM" == Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>
>
> BM> Hold --- a non-FULL vacuum is taking 6+ hours on two tables?  That seems
> BM> impossible.
>
> Well, did I mention I'm saturating my disk I/O bandwidth at the same
> time with other queries? ;-)

But six hours.  It is my understanding that a sequential scan is roughly
the same load as a non-FULL vacuum.  Are you saying a sequential scan
takes +6 hours too?  How can any work get done?

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