Re: [PERFORM] Can anyone explain this: duplicate dbs.

2005-05-24 Thread SpaceBallOne
What version of postgres? 8.0.2 ... but I think I've seen this before on 7.3 ... There are a few possibilities. If you are having a lot of updates to the table, you can get index bloat. And vacuum doesn't fix indexes. You have to "REINDEX" to do that. Though REINDEX has the same lock that VACU

[PERFORM] Can anyone explain this: duplicate dbs.

2005-05-24 Thread SpaceBallOne
Wondering if someone could explain a pecularity for me:We have a database which takes 1000ms to perform a certain query on.If I pg_dump that database then create a new database (e.g. "tempdb") and upload the dump file (thus making a duplicate) then the same query only takes 190ms !! Vacuum,

[PERFORM] gah! sudden slowdown??

2005-02-24 Thread SpaceBallOne
Our dual opteron has been performing well for many weeks now (after some simple tuning) when all of a sudden the queries have slowed right down!ie:   DUAL 246 OPTERON:   select count(*) from job_archieve; - Time: 107.24 ms   explain analyse select count(*) from job_archieve;Aggregate  (cost=2

Re: [PERFORM] poor performance of db?

2005-01-24 Thread SpaceBallOne
- especially if they automatically index themselves. I didn't do a vacuum analyse on them so that may explain why they didn't seem to do much. Thanks, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "John Arbash Meinel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SpaceBa

Re: [PERFORM] poor performance of db?

2005-01-24 Thread SpaceBallOne
ms I tried setting up 10-15 indexes yesterday, but couldn't see they were doing anything. I have since deleted them (on the premise that I didn't have a clue what I was doing). I'm not actually running any keys in this database... would that be a simpler way of running my quer

[PERFORM] poor performance of db?

2005-01-24 Thread SpaceBallOne
Hello everyone,First time poster to the mailing list here.   We have been running pgsql for about a year now at a pretty basic level (I guess) as a backend for custom web (intranet) application software. Our database so far is a "huge" (note sarcasm) 10 Mb containing of about 6 or so princi