On 02/23/2012 11:56 AM, Greg Spiegelberg wrote:
> I know there are perils in using ctid but with the LOCK it should be
> safe. This transaction took perhaps 30 minutes and removed 100k rows
> and once the table was VACUUM'd afterward it freed up close to 20 GB
> on the file system.
It took *30 minutes* to delete 100k rows? And 100k rows were using 20GB?
Is that off by an order of magnitude?
Using the ctid is a cute trick, though. :)
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