> You could try CLUSTER instead of VACUUM FULL, as I think it should be > faster. And the indexes will be devoid of any bloat, which will be a > nice side effect. > > I wonder, though, if you set maintenance_work_mem too high and are > causing the OS to swap? > Hmmm, why would cluster be faster? No swapping - "top" shows swap mem of 3MB used and that wasn't changing. Just to be sure I ran "swapoff -a ; swapon -a" which brought it back to zero and it's not budging from there. Cheers, Steve