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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:03:08 -0500
From: Kenneth Marshall <ktm@rice.edu>
To: Gael Le Mignot <gael@pilotsystems.net>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Periodically slow inserts
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Hi,

There are a lot of details missing about your system:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SlowQueryQuestions

Cheers,
Ken

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 02:25:44PM +0200, Gael Le Mignot wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We are  using PostgreSQL for  storing data and full-text  search indexes
> for the webiste of a daily newspaper. We are very happy overall with the
> results, but we have one "weird" behaviour that we would like to solve.
> 
> ...