Re: Query times change by orders of magnitude as DB ages

From: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: Richard Neill <rn214(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Query times change by orders of magnitude as DB ages
Date: 2009-11-25 16:33:20
Message-ID: 2f4958ff0911250833s22b92dcah9cf3ccac0421b4bc@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov
> wrote:

> Richard Neill <rn214(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk> wrote:
>
> > In terms of just index bloat, does a regular vacuum help?
>
> You might want to use the REINDEX command to correct serious index
> bloat. A regular vacuum will make dead space available for re-use,
> but won't eliminate bloat directly. (If run regularly, it will
> prevent bloat.)
>
> for that reason, it makes sense to actually partition your data - even tho
you don't see performance degradation because of data size, but purely
because of nature of data.
Other way, is to perform regular cluster && reindex - but this blocks
relations you are clustering..

--
GJ

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