Am 01.05.2004 um 17:48 schrieb Tom Lane:
> Martin Hampl <Martin.Hampl@gmx.de> writes:
>> Am 30.04.2004 um 17:52 schrieb Tom Lane:
>>> It could be that this table has a lot of empty pages near the front,
>
>> I never deleted anything from this database, but it might be that I
>> dropped some of the tables a couple of times when populating the
>> database. Also 'copy from' failed a couple of times. Can that have the
>> same effect?
>
> A failed copy-in would leave a dead row for each input line that it was
> able to process before hitting the error. So potentially that could
> account for a lot of dead rows. I think there is a hint on the COPY
> reference page suggesting that you VACUUM in such a situation ...
There is. Well...
Regards,
Martin
