Re: [PERFORM] Query planner issue

2006-01-30 Thread Tom Lane
Mark Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You really, really want to upgrade as soon as possible, No, sooner than that. Show your boss the list of known data-loss-causing bugs in 7.2.1, and refuse to take responsibility if the database eats all your data before the "in good time" upgrade. The rel

Re: [PERFORM] Query planner issue

2006-01-30 Thread Emmanuel Lacour
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 03:26:23PM -0800, Mark Lewis wrote: > You have lots of dead rows. Do a vacuum full to get it under control, > then run VACUUM more frequently and/or increase your FSM settings to > keep dead rows in check. In 7.2 vacuum is pretty intrusive; it will be > much better behaved

Re: [PERFORM] Query planner issue

2006-01-30 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
with Postgresql 7.2.1 you will need to do BOTH vacuum and reindex and with a table that gets many updates/deletes, you should run vacuum more than daily. Both issues have been solved in 8.1. Jim -- Original Message --- From: Emmanuel Lacour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: pgsql-perfo

Re: [PERFORM] Query planner issue

2006-01-30 Thread Mark Lewis
You have lots of dead rows. Do a vacuum full to get it under control, then run VACUUM more frequently and/or increase your FSM settings to keep dead rows in check. In 7.2 vacuum is pretty intrusive; it will be much better behaved once you can upgrade to a more recent version. You really, really