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To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
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Subject: Re: 121+ million record table perf problems 
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Comments: In-reply-to Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca> writes:
> All of that said, 17 hours seems kinda long. 

I imagine he's done a bunch of those full-table UPDATEs without
vacuuming, and now has approximately a gazillion dead tuples bloating
the table.

			regards, tom lane