Re: 121+ million record table perf problems

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 121+ million record table perf problems
Date: 2007-05-18 19:37:41
Message-ID: 1481.1179517061@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> writes:
> All of that said, 17 hours seems kinda long.

I imagine he's done a bunch of those full-table UPDATEs without
vacuuming, and now has approximately a gazillion dead tuples bloating
the table.

regards, tom lane

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