Re: Excessive vacuum times - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Excessive vacuum times
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Msg-id 2719.1134429997@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Excessive vacuum times  (Wes <wespvp@syntegra.com>)
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Re: Excessive vacuum times
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Wes <wespvp@syntegra.com> writes:
> The problem was determined to be due to the fact that indexes are vacuumed
> in index order, not in disk storage order.  I don't see anything about this
> in the "What's new" for 8.1.  Has anything been done to resolve this?

No.  Avoiding that would require a new approach to
vacuum-vs-ordinary-indexscan interlocking, so it won't happen until
someone has a Bright Idea (tm).

            regards, tom lane

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