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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 04:07:13 -0400
From: Greg Smith <greg@2ndQuadrant.com>
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Subject: Re: REINDEX takes half a day (and still not complete!)
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On 04/23/2011 03:44 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Apr 17, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Phoenix Kiula<phoenix.kiula@gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Postgres is 8.2.9.
>>
>>      
> An upgrade would probably help you a lot, and as others have said it sounds like your hardware is failing, so you probably want to deal with that first.
>
> I am a bit surprised, however, that no one seems to have mentioned using CLUSTER rather than VACUUM or REINDEX. Sometimes that's worth a try...
>    

Don't know if it was for this reason or not for not mentioning it by 
others, but CLUSTER isn't so great in 8.2.  The whole "not MVCC-safe" 
bit does not inspire confidence on a production server.

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