Re: Vacuuming - how often? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Lincoln Yeoh
Subject Re: Vacuuming - how often?
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Msg-id 3.0.5.32.20011114235557.019fc790@192.228.128.13
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In response to Vacuuming - how often?  ("Scott Muir" <wsmuir@islandnet.com>)
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At 06:32 PM 11/13/01 -0700, Scott Muir wrote:
>I'm using 7.1 on redhat 7.1...
>
>I had a query result which startled me a bit...  it was a simple join and
>the result was like a cartesian product like I hadn't bothered with a when
>clause.
>
>I ran vacuum from inside pgaccess and the results of the query changed to
>what I was expecting in the first place...

AFAIK in most typical cases results should not change because of a vacuum -
performance may change, but the results shouldn't.

If the results change then something is wrong - corrupted/buggy index perhaps.

Cheerio,
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