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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>
To: Rafael Martinez <r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Need to run CLUSTER to keep performance
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:09:55 +0000
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Rafael Martinez wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> On a small table like that you could run VACUUM every few minutes
>> without much impact on performance. That should keep the table size in
>> check.
> 
> Ok, we run VACUUM ANALYZE only one time a day, every night. But we would
> espect the performance to get ok again after running vacuum, and it
> doesn't. Only CLUSTER helps.

If the table is already bloated, a VACUUM won't usually shrink it. It 
only makes the space available for reuse, but a sequential scan still 
needs to go through a lot of pages.

CLUSTER on the other hand repacks the tuples and gets rid of all the 
unused space on pages. You need to run CLUSTER or VACUUM FULL once to 
shrink the relation, but after that frequent-enough VACUUMs should keep 
the table size down.

-- 
   Heikki Linnakangas
   EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com



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