I am having huge performance problems with a table. Performance deteriorates
every day and I have to run REINDEX and ANALYZE on it every day.  auto
vacuum is on.  yes, I am reading the other thread about count(*) :)

but obviously I'm doing something wrong here


explain analyze select count(*) from fastadder_fastadderstatus;

Aggregate  (cost=62458.73..62458.74 rows=1 width=0) (actual
time=77130.000..77130.000 rows=1 loops=1)
   ->  Seq Scan on fastadder_fastadderstatus  (cost=0.00..61701.18
rows=303018 width=0) (actual time=50.000..76930.000 rows=302479 loops=1)
 Total runtime: *77250.000 ms*

directly after REINDEX and ANALYZE:

 Aggregate  (cost=62348.70..62348.71 rows=1 width=0) (actual
time=15830.000..15830.000 rows=1 loops=1)
   ->  Seq Scan on fastadder_fastadderstatus  (cost=0.00..61613.16
rows=294216 width=0) (actual time=30.000..15570.000 rows=302479 loops=1)
 Total runtime: 15830.000 ms

still very bad for a 300k row table

a similar table:

explain analyze select count(*) from fastadder_fastadderstatuslog;

 Aggregate  (cost=8332.53..8332.54 rows=1 width=0) (actual
time=1270.000..1270.000 rows=1 loops=1)
   ->  Seq Scan on fastadder_fastadderstatuslog  (cost=0.00..7389.02
rows=377402 width=0) (actual time=0.000..910.000 rows=377033 loops=1)
 Total runtime: 1270.000 ms


It gets updated quite a bit each day, and this is perhaps the problem.
To me it doesn't seem like that many updates

100-500 rows inserted per day
no deletes

10k-50k updates per day
mostly of this sort:   set priority=1 where id=12345

is it perhaps this that is causing the performance problem ?

I could rework the app to be more efficient and do updates using batches
where id IN (1,2,3,4...)

I assume that means a more efficient index update compared to individual
updates.

There is one routine that updates position_in_queue using a lot (too many)
update statements.
Is that likely to be the culprit ?

*What else can I do to investigate ?*


                                       Table
"public.fastadder_fastadderstatus"
      Column       |           Type           |
  Modifiers
-------------------+--------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------
 id                | integer                  | not null default
nextval('fastadder_fastadderstatus_id_seq'::regclass)
 apt_id            | integer                  | not null
 service_id        | integer                  | not null
 agent_priority    | integer                  | not null
 priority          | integer                  | not null
 last_validated    | timestamp with time zone |
 last_sent         | timestamp with time zone |
 last_checked      | timestamp with time zone |
 last_modified     | timestamp with time zone | not null
 running_status    | integer                  |
 validation_status | integer                  |
 position_in_queue | integer                  |
 sent              | boolean                  | not null default false
 built             | boolean                  | not null default false
 webid_suffix      | integer                  |
 build_cache       | text                     |
Indexes:
    "fastadder_fastadderstatus_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id)
    "fastadder_fastadderstatus_apt_id_key" UNIQUE, btree (apt_id,
service_id)
    "fastadder_fastadderstatus_agent_priority" btree (agent_priority)
    "fastadder_fastadderstatus_apt_id" btree (apt_id)
    "fastadder_fastadderstatus_built" btree (built)
    "fastadder_fastadderstatus_last_checked" btree (last_checked)
    "fastadder_fastadderstatus_last_validated" btree (last_validated)
    "fastadder_fastadderstatus_position_in_queue" btree (position_in_queue)
    "fastadder_fastadderstatus_priority" btree (priority)
    "fastadder_fastadderstatus_running_status" btree (running_status)
    "fastadder_fastadderstatus_service_id" btree (service_id)
Foreign-key constraints:
    "fastadder_fastadderstatus_apt_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (apt_id) REFERENCES
nsproperties_apt(id) DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED
    "fastadder_fastadderstatus_service_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (service_id)
REFERENCES fastadder_fastadderservice(id) DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED


thanks !

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