Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([98.129.198.125]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TGTFO-0005y1-0D for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:24:14 +0000 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TGTFM-0004wJ-5b for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:24:13 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TGTFM-0001hp-5D for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:24:12 +0200 Received: from 217.110.94.121 ([217.110.94.121]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:24:12 +0200 Received: from spam_eater by 217.110.94.121 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:24:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org From: Thomas Kellerer Subject: Re: Postgres becoming slow, only full vacuum fixes it Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:24:04 +0200 Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <71DC95CE-16EF-4D53-9971-C573DCD30622@gmail.com> <1348489393630-5725129.post@n5.nabble.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.110.94.121 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 In-Reply-To: X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.6 (-) X-Archive-Number: 201209/210 X-Sequence-Number: 47956 Kiriakos Tsourapas, 25.09.2012 13:01: > Thank you, > > I will take this into consideration, since upgrading to 9 will be much harder I assume... > I think an upgrade from 8.3 to 8.4 was "harder" due to the removal of a lot of implicit type casts. 8.4 to 9.x shouldn't be that problematic after all (but will take longer due to the required dump/reload)