Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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> > At this point, I'm at a loss. I've searched the archives for similar
> > problems, but none of the suggestions have worked. Is the data in this
> > table corrupted? Why are both vacuum and reindex failing to complete?
> > Is there some sort of fine-tuning I should pay attention to? Any help
> > is much appreciated.
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> At this point, you are in a world of hurt :). If you stop a vacuum you
> have created a huge mess of dead rows in that table. My suggestion is
> this to create a new table that is populated from the old table, rename
> the old table to big_table new, rename new table to old table. Run analyze.
Running CLUSTER is a faster and less error-prone way of doing the same thing.
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