Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> I loaded 10,000,000 rows into CREATE TABLE test (x INTEGER); Table is
> 400MB and index is 160MB.
> With index on the single in4 column, I got:
> 78 seconds for a vacuum
> 121 seconds for vacuum after deleting a single row
> 662 seconds for vacuum after deleting the entire table
> With no index, I got:
> 43 seconds for a vacuum
> 43 seconds for vacuum after deleting a single row
> 43 seconds for vacuum after deleting the entire table
> I find this quite interesting.
How long does it take to create the index on your setup --- ie,
if vacuum did a drop/create index, would it be competitive?
regards, tom lane
