From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org>
Cc: tv@fuzzy.cz, "Tobias Brox" <tobias@nordicbet.com>
Cc: Gábor Farkas <gabor@nekomancer.net>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: autovacuum: recommended?
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:23:18 -0500
Message-ID: <29751.1195485798@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org> writes:
> FWIW, 20k rows isn't all that big, so I'm assuming that the
> descriptions make the table very wide. Unless those descriptions are
> what's being updated frequently, I suggest you put those in a
> separate table (vertical partitioning). That will make the main table
> much easier to vacuum, as well as reducing the impact of the high
> churn rate.
Uh, you do realize that the TOAST mechanism does that pretty much
automatically?
regards, tom lane
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