Re: [PERFORM] Insert only tables and vacuum performance

2004-04-30 Thread Joseph Shraibman
Tom Lane wrote: Joseph Shraibman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a table that is never updated, only INSERTED into. Is there a way I can prevent vacuum wasting time on this table What makes you think vacuum is wasting much time on this table? AFAICS it will only update any unfixed hint bits

Re: [PERFORM] Insert only tables and vacuum performance

2004-04-29 Thread Tom Lane
Joseph Shraibman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a table that is never updated, only INSERTED into. Is there a way I can prevent vacuum wasting time on this table What makes you think vacuum is wasting much time on this table? AFAICS it will only update any unfixed hint bits ...

Re: [PERFORM] Insert only tables and vacuum performance

2004-04-29 Thread Joseph Shraibman
Joseph Shraibman wrote: I have a table that is never updated, only INSERTED into. Is there a way I can prevent vacuum wasting time on this table besides vacuuming each table in the db by itself and omitting this table? How feasable would it be to have a marker somewhere in pg that is updated

Re: [PERFORM] Insert only tables and vacuum performance

2004-04-29 Thread Rod Taylor
Or even better an offset into the datatable for the earliest deleted row, so if you have a table where you update the row shortly after insert and then never touch it vacuum can skip most of the table (inserts are done at the end of the table, right?) Inserts are done at the end of the