On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 06:26:37PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Wes <wespvp@syntegra.com> writes:
> > The problem was determined to be due to the fact that indexes are vacuumed
> > in index order, not in disk storage order. I don't see anything about this
> > in the "What's new" for 8.1. Has anything been done to resolve this?
>
> No. Avoiding that would require a new approach to
> vacuum-vs-ordinary-indexscan interlocking, so it won't happen until
> someone has a Bright Idea (tm).
Plus there is a TODO to only vacuum pages that are known to have dead
tuples, which should hopefully mean no more index-scans during vacuum as
well. Hopefully this makes it into 8.2...
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