Lonni J Friedman <netllama(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> The spam filtering package I use (dspam) had a section in their
> release notes recently which stated that disabling OIDs greatly
> increased speeds, and so they suggested that people do that on their
> tables.
"greatly increased"? I doubt it.
Last I heard, dspam was not noted for any large amount of cluefulness
WRT postgres. It was only recently that we managed to talk them out of
their most egregious bits of mysql-centricity. Going to them for
postgres tuning tips is about like coming to me for mysql tuning ...
regards, tom lane