"Steven Flatt" <steven.flatt@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The vacuum then just sat there. What I can't understand is why it went back > for a second pass of the pkey index? There was nothing writing to the table > once the vacuum began. Is this behaviour expected? Yes (hint: the numbers tell me what your maintenance_work_mem setting is). You should have left it alone, probably, though there seems to be something funny about your foo_1 index --- why was that so much slower than the others for the first pass? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
