Brad Nicholson wrote: > If you want to compact the the table, you either need to use CLUSTER or > VACUUM FULL + REINDEX. Actually those are all pretty slow. If you can do a no-op ALTER TYPE that rewrites the entire table, it is a lot faster. Something like ALTER TABLE tab ALTER COLUMN col TYPE integer; Assume that column "col" on table "tab" already has type integer. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
