Re: Manual vacs 5x faster than autovacs?

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On 13/11/2009 2:29 PM, Dave Crooke wrote:

> Beware that VACUUM FULL locks an entire table at a time :-)

... and often bloats its indexes horribly. Use CLUSTER instead if you
need to chop a table that's massively bloated down to size; it'll be
much faster, and shouldn't leave the indexes in a mess.

I increasingly wonder what the purpose of VACUUM FULL in its current
form is.

--
Craig Ringer

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