On 04/26/2012 12:49 PM, Craig James wrote:
An update to our system means I'm going to be rewriting every row of some large tables (20 million rows by 15 columns). In a situation like this, can auto-vacuum take care of it, or should I plan on vacuum-full/reindex to clean up?
If you rewrite the whole table, you will end up with a table twice the size, it will not be compacted but as the table grows, the old space will be reused.
jD
This is 8.4.4. Thanks, Craig
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