Gavin Hamill <gdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Nodes 2 and 3 take only the tables necessary to run our search (10 out > of the full 130) and are much lighter (only 7GB on disk cf. 30GB for > the full master) , yet the nightly VACUUM FULL has jumped from 2 hours > to 4 in the space of one day! I guess the most useful question to ask is "why are you doing VACUUM FULL?" Plain VACUUM should be considerably faster, and for the level of row turnover shown by your log, there doesn't seem to be a reason to use FULL. regards, tom lane
