Re: \d on database with a lot of tables is slow

On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 10:10:22AM +0300, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> On L, 2005-09-24 at 18:59 -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > I have a client with a database that contains 4000 relations according
> > to vacuum verbose, and \d in psql is painfully slow. In particular...
> >
> > -> Seq Scan on pg_class c (cost=0.00..2343.09 rows=6124 width=73) (actual time=0.325..22100.840 rows=16856 loops=1)
> > Filter: (((relkind = 'r'::"char") OR (relkind = 'v'::"char") OR (relkind = 'S'::"char") OR (relkind = ''::"char")) AND pg_table_is_visible(oid))
> >
> > That's off my laptop, but they're seeing similar issues on an 8-way
> > Opteron as well...
>
> I expext the issue on 8-way opteron to be more of a high load than slow
> scan. It seems that sometimes a database with lots of activity slows
> down considerably. I suspect some locking issues, but I'm not sure this
> is the case.

No temp tables in use. The issue didn't appear to be load-dependant,
either.
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