On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:42:47 -0800 shane hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Our db is getting to be a respectable size (about 10GB right now) and > is growing slower and slower. I have been charged with making it > faster and with a smaller footprint while retaining all of the current > functionality. here is one of my ideas. Please tell me if I am > crazy: > What exactly is it getting slower doing? Have you run through the usual gamut of things to check - shared buffers, vacuum analyzig, etc. etc. What ver of PG? What OS? Can you post any schema/queries? Normalizing can help. But I don't think it is going to be a magical bullet that will make the DB instantly fast. It will reduce the size of it though. -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org