You didn't specify the database size, but my guess is that the total data size about enough to fit in shared_buffers or kernel cache. On the new system (or dropped/recreated database), it would've all or mostly fit in memory which would make things like count(*) work quickly. On the old database, you probably had a lot of fragmentation which would've caused significantly more I/O to be performed thereby causing a slowdown. You could compare relation sizes to check easily.
My guess is that a vacuum full would've brought the other database back up to speed. In the future, you probably want to set fillfactor to a reasonable amount to account for updates-to-blocks-between-vacuum to try and capture as few row-migrations as possible. -- Jonah H. Harris, Sr. Software Architect | phone: 732.331.1324 EnterpriseDB Corporation | fax: 732.331.1301 499 Thornall Street, 2nd Floor | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edison, NJ 08837 | http://www.enterprisedb.com/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
