Re: [PERFORM] Vacuum takes a really long time, vacuum full required

2004-10-23 Thread Max Baker
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 11:40:17AM -0400, Rod Taylor wrote: Whatever the case, the database still slows down to a halt after a month or so, and I have to go in and shut everything down and do a VACUUM FULL by hand. One index (of many many) takes 2000 seconds to vacuum. The whole process

[PERFORM] Vacuum takes a really long time, vacuum full required

2004-10-19 Thread Max Baker
Hi Folks, This is my _4th_ time trying to post this, me and the mailing list software are fighting. I think it's because of the attachments so I'll just put links to them instead. All apologies if this gets duplicated. I've been having problems maintaining the speed of the database in the long

Re: [PERFORM] Vacuum takes a really long time, vacuum full required

2004-10-19 Thread Rod Taylor
Whatever the case, the database still slows down to a halt after a month or so, and I have to go in and shut everything down and do a VACUUM FULL by hand. One index (of many many) takes 2000 seconds to vacuum. The whole process takes a few hours. Do a REINDEX on that table instead, and

Re: [PERFORM] Vacuum takes a really long time, vacuum full required

2004-10-19 Thread Tom Lane
Max Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been having problems maintaining the speed of the database in the long run. VACUUMs of the main tables happen a few times a day after maybe 50,000 or less rows are added and deleted (say 6 times a day). I have a whole lot (probably too much) indexing

Re: [PERFORM] Vacuum takes a really long time, vacuum full required

2004-10-19 Thread Max Baker
Hi Rod, On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 11:40:17AM -0400, Rod Taylor wrote: Whatever the case, the database still slows down to a halt after a month or so, and I have to go in and shut everything down and do a VACUUM FULL by hand. One index (of many many) takes 2000 seconds to vacuum. The whole