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Re: [PORTS] vacuum takes too long

David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.de> — 1999-01-06T22:38:29Z

> From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

> > insert a few row in a table (>50000) and do
> > delete from mytable;
> > vacuum verbose  analyze;
> >
> > Why is this that slow?
>
> Analyze checks every column in every row.

even if you only type "vacuum verbose" it takes _very_ long.

I deleted _all_ records with "delete from mytable;" before.
A drop and a new create is faster. But what is when you delete (maybe  
100000) rows but keep 100 in the table?

I use 6.4.2 on NetBSD/i486 (that box makes gets 12MBytes/sec via the  
filesystem out of the drives)
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