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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Markus Benne <markus@m-bass.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: VACUUM FULL vs CLUSTER
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:20:27 -0500
Message-ID: <20050923142027.GC2298@wolff.to> (raw)
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 14:53:19 -0400,
  Markus Benne <markus@m-bass.com> wrote:
> I have a table that is purged by 25% each night.  I'd like to do a
> vacuum nightly after the purge to reclaim the space, but I think I'll
> still need to do a vacuum full weekly.
> 
> Would there be any benefit to doing a cluster instead of the vacuum?

If you have a proper FSM setting you shouldn't need to do vacuum fulls
(unless you have an older version of postgres where index bloat might
be an issue).



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