Re: perfomance question/issues

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Williams, Travis L, NPONS wrote:

> How can you tell what the performance of you DB is? I know a lot has
> to do with DB design.. I don't see postgres using a lot of memory or
> cpu on my system.. but everything seems a little slow for what I
> consider a small DB..
>
> What I have is 4 static columns that are indexed and roughly 460 that
> are updated. Now I have only 215 rows. If I update all of the
> columns then run vacuum analyze it takes 7-10 minutes. I also have
> had trouble doing updates... I have tried doing them through perl and
> psql by doing a \i then the file name.. I have also tried using begin;
> and end; around the file.. but it still takes 1 minute+ to update one
> row. any suggestions are welcome.

Are you using any foreign keys to/from this table that might be doing
checks on other tables?