Re: Can anyone explain this: duplicate dbs.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: SpaceBallOne <space_ball_one(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Can anyone explain this: duplicate dbs.
Date: 2005-05-25 03:01:28
Message-ID: 7665.1116990088@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>> If I pg_dump that database then create a new database (e.g. "tempdb")
>> and upload the dump file (thus making a duplicate) then the same query
>> only takes 190ms !!
>> Vacuum, vacuum analyse, and vacuum full analyse does not seem to have an
>> impact on these times.

> Damn, for some reason I didn't read that you had already tried vacuum
> full.

I'm thinking index bloat, and a PG version too old for vacuum full to
recover any index space. But without any information about PG version
or EXPLAIN ANALYZE results, we're all just guessing.

regards, tom lane

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