Re: Why so slow?

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com>
Cc: Bealach-na Bo <bealach_na_bo(at)hotmail(dot)com>, ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Why so slow?
Date: 2006-05-02 20:17:41
Message-ID: 20060502201740.GB97354@pervasive.com
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On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 10:03:46AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> At this point, it seems like you need to do 2 things:
> 1) Schedule lazy vacuum to run, or configure autovacuum.
> 2) Schedule some downtime to run "vacuum full" to recover some disk space.
>
> #2 only needs done once to get you back on track, assuming that #1 is
> done properly.

You'll also want to reindex since vacuum full won't clean the indexes
up. You might also want to read
http://www.pervasivepostgres.com/instantkb13/article.aspx?id=10087 and
http://www.pervasivepostgres.com/instantkb13/article.aspx?id=10116.
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