Re: VACUUM FULL vs CLUSTER - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: VACUUM FULL vs CLUSTER
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Msg-id 20050923142027.GC2298@wolff.to
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In response to VACUUM FULL vs CLUSTER  (Markus Benne <markus@m-bass.com>)
Responses Re: VACUUM FULL vs CLUSTER  (Stef <svb@ucs.co.za>)
List pgsql-performance
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 14:53:19 -0400,
  Markus Benne <markus@m-bass.com> wrote:
> I have a table that is purged by 25% each night.  I'd like to do a
> vacuum nightly after the purge to reclaim the space, but I think I'll
> still need to do a vacuum full weekly.
>
> Would there be any benefit to doing a cluster instead of the vacuum?

If you have a proper FSM setting you shouldn't need to do vacuum fulls
(unless you have an older version of postgres where index bloat might
be an issue).

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