On 13/11/2009 2:29 PM, Dave Crooke wrote:
> Beware that VACUUM FULL locks an entire table at a time :-)
... and often bloats its indexes horribly. Use CLUSTER instead if you
need to chop a table that's massively bloated down to size; it'll be
much faster, and shouldn't leave the indexes in a mess.
I increasingly wonder what the purpose of VACUUM FULL in its current
form is.
--
Craig Ringer
