Jeffrey Baker escribió:
> That's rather more like it. I guess I always imagined that VACUUM was
> a sort of linear process, not random, and that it should proceed at
> sequential scan speeds.
It's linear for the table, but there are passes for indexes which are
random in 8.1. That code was rewritten by Heikki Linnakangas to do
linear passes for indexes in 8.2 AFAIR.
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