Table maintenance: order of operations important? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

We have a number of tables from which we expire (delete) rows nightly.
Is there any value to ordering the operations, in terms of either table
physical organization or elapsed time?

E.g.,

   DELETE FROM foo WHERE date_expires < now();
   VACUUM ANALYZE foo;
   CLUSTER foo;
   REINDEX TABLE foo;

How would you choose to order these (under 7.4.x) for fastest
turn-around? Does it matter?


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