Received: from localhost (maia-1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9EC19FB40C for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 13:22:06 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06317-06 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 13:22:01 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net (vms040pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.40]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 963389FB3A9 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 13:22:01 -0300 (ADT) Received: from osgiliath.mathom.us ([72.66.113.156]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JI500HNN6SETQQ7@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 11:21:50 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by osgiliath.mathom.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id D00641F816 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:20:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from osgiliath.mathom.us ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (osgiliath.home.mathom.us [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id MX-n3bbcPVvX for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:20:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: by osgiliath.mathom.us (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 64C1A1F814; Wed, 16 May 2007 12:20:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 12:20:38 -0400 From: Michael Stone Subject: Re: [doc patch] a slight VACUUM / VACUUM FULL doc improvement proposal In-reply-to: <20070516160926.GX4582@alvh.no-ip.org> To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Mail-followup-to: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Message-id: <20070516162035.GI1785@mathom.us> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mathom.us X-Pgp-Fingerprint: 53 FF 38 00 E7 DD 0A 9C 84 52 84 C5 EE DF 7C 88 References: <87lkfqavg9.fsf@meuh.mnc.lan> <20070515174427.GG1785@mathom.us> <87hcqdb4g5.fsf@meuh.mnc.lan> <20070516154809.GL14548@nasby.net> <877ir892ss.fsf@meuh.mnc.lan> <20070516160926.GX4582@alvh.no-ip.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200705/291 X-Sequence-Number: 24681 On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:09:26PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >Maybe, but we should also mention that CLUSTER is a likely faster >workaround. Unless, of course, you don't particularly care about the order of the items in your table; you might end up wasting vastly more time rewriting tables due to unnecessary clustering than for full vacuums on a table that doesn't need it. Mike Stone