Re: Resumable vacuum proposal and design overview - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: Resumable vacuum proposal and design overview
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In response to Re: Resumable vacuum proposal and design overview  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Resumable vacuum proposal and design overview  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:14:24PM +0000, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> cache instead. In the index scan phase, it's randomly accessed, but if 
> the table is clustered, it's in fact not completely random access. In 
> the 2nd vacuum pass, the array is scanned sequentially again. I'm not 

Only if there's only one index on the table... otherwise I'd argue that
you're much less likely to be searching the TID list incrementally.
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