Re: Vacuum-full very slow - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Vacuum-full very slow
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Msg-id 25112.1177519733@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Vacuum-full very slow  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> I wonder, though, if you set maintenance_work_mem too high and are
> causing the OS to swap?

AFAIR, vacuum full pays no attention to maintenance_work_mem anyway.
If the data it needs doesn't fit in memory, you lose ...

            regards, tom lane

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