From: Tom Arthurs <tarthurs@jobflash.com>
To: smiley2211 <smiley2211@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Database Statistics???
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:39:19 -0700
Message-ID: <4697B8C7.7030304@jobflash.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11583450.post@talk.nabble.com>
References: <11583450.post@talk.nabble.com>
smiley2211 wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am a bit confused...I have a database which was performing very POORLY
> selecting from a view (posted earlier) on one server but extremely fast on
> another server...
>
> I just backed up the database from the FAST server and loaded to the SLOW
> server and it ran just as fast as it originally did...my questions are:
>
> Are STATISTICS some how saved with the database?? if so, how do I UPDATE
> view or update them?
>
> Should I backup the data \ drop the database and reload it to make it get
> new stats?? (vacuum analyze does nothing for this poor performing database)
>
> Thanks-a-bunch.
>
You can update statistics with the analyze or vacuum analyze command,
but I'd bet what you are seeing here is the effect of recreating the
indices that replaying a backup does.
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