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From: Eildert Groeneveld <eg@tzv.fal.de>
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Subject: Vacuum takes for ever
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 09:45:49 +0200
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Hello everyone,
in a substantial multi location development project we are using PG to
create a large information system. 
After having loaded data in the order of one million records a vaccum took
50h of CPU time on a 350MHz PII (RedHat 5.2, pg 6.4.2). There were no
deletes or anyting like that.

What does vaccum do that takes so long and is there a way to speed this up?

greetings


Eildert Groeneveld
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Institute for
Animal Science and Animal Behaviour
Mariensee 31535 Neustadt Germany
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