X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 008285284D for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 20:54:30 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 53729-08 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 23:54:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cassarossa.samfundet.no (cassarossa.samfundet.no [129.241.93.19]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D84A52846 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 20:54:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: from trofast.ipv6.sesse.net ([2001:700:300:dc03:20e:cff:fe36:a766] helo=trofast.sesse.net) by cassarossa.samfundet.no with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1DpEI5-0001uT-B7 for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 01:54:26 +0200 Received: from sesse by trofast.sesse.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DpEI4-0004DV-00 for ; Mon, 04 Jul 2005 01:54:24 +0200 Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 01:54:24 +0200 From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" To: postgresql performance list Subject: Re: plain inserts and deletes very slow Message-ID: <20050703235424.GA16122@uio.no> Mail-Followup-To: postgresql performance list References: <20050703224537.GA9777@nibiru.borg.metux.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050703224537.GA9777@nibiru.borg.metux.de> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.11.8 on a i686 X-Message-Flag: Outlook? --> http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.019 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200507/19 X-Sequence-Number: 13260 On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 12:45:37AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > my application reads and writes some table quite often > (multiple times per second). these tables are quite small > (not more than 20 tuples), but the operations take quite a > long time (>300 ms!). Are you VACUUMing often enough? /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/