Re: postgresql meltdown on PlanetMath.org

> I don't know what your definition of "high" is, but I do find that
> turnover can degrade performance over time. Perhaps one of the devs
> can enlighten me, but I have a database that turns over ~100,000
> rows/day that does appear to slowly get worse. The updates are done
> in batches and I "VACUUM" and "VACUUM ANALYZE" after each batch
> (three/day) but I found that over time simple queries would start to
> hit the disk more and more.

Creeping index syndrome. Tom recently fixed this in HEAD. Try the
latest copy from the repo and see if this solves your problems.

> A "select count(*) FROM tblwordidx" initially took about 1 second to
> return a count of 2 million but after a few months it took several
> minutes of really hard HDD grinding.

That's because there are dead entries in the index that weren't being
reused or cleaned up. As I said, this has been fixed.

-sc

PS It's good to see you around again. :)

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Sean Chittenden