On 2013-04-09 00:09, Kevin Grittner wrote: > I'm not sure that what we're doing now is correct, but updating > things as if a normal vacuum had been done would *not* be the thing > to do. For starters, VACUUM FULL blows away the free space map and > visibility map for a table. Among other things, that means that > index-only scans will cease to work until the table has a normal > vacuum. Ah, now it makes sense. Thank you, that's what I was looking for. And I agree with Jeff that this could be documented in more detail. Thanks, crl -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general