"Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:26:37PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> No. Avoiding that would require a new approach to >> vacuum-vs-ordinary-indexscan interlocking, so it won't happen until >> someone has a Bright Idea (tm). > Plus there is a TODO to only vacuum pages that are known to have dead > tuples, which should hopefully mean no more index-scans during vacuum as > well. No such luck. You delete any tuples, you need to scan the indexes. regards, tom lane
