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Subject: Is it ever necessary to vacuum a table that only gets inserts/updates?
From: Jason Buberel <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:24:25 -0800

Just wondering if there is ever a reason to vacuum a very large table (> 1B rows) containing rows that never has rows deleted.

Under what circumstance would the table benefit from a vacuum?

-jason

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