vacuum takes too long

David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.de>

From: David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.de>
To: ports@postgreSQL.org, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-01-06T19:09:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

insert a few row in a table (>50000) and do
delete from mytable;
vacuum verbose  analyze;

Why is this that slow?

[I am not on hackers@postgreSQL.org]
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