On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@gmail.com> writes: > Not only that, but from your description (I haven't read the patch, > sorry), you'd be scanning the whole index multiple times (one per > worker).
What about pointing each worker at a separate index? Obviously the degree of concurrency during index cleanup is then limited by the number of indexes, but that doesn't seem like a fatal problem.
+1
We could eventually need some effective way of parallelizing vacuum of single index.
But pointing each worker at separate index seems to be fair enough for majority of cases.
