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From: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: Justin Clift <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: pg_autovacuum is nice ... but ...
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 20:21:59 -0400 (AST)
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On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Justin Clift wrote:
>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> <snip>
>> 
>>> Do a vacuum full analyze on the two databases being called, and load time 
>>> went from 2.4sec to .46sec:
>> 
>> 
>> Hmmmm, is there any chance your Free Space Map settings aren't high enough?
>> 
>
> I could be wrong but my understanding is that pg_autovacuum won't vacuum 
> system tables so eventually you still need to perform a full vacuum (not 
> neccessarily a vacuum full).
>
> Could this be the issue?

I just setup a weekly cron to do a vacuum full ... I didn't realize that 
pg_autovacuum didn't catch it all, except, of course, I should have clued 
in when we had that fun with the banner database, where an index on a 12 
row table was faster then no index :)

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: [email protected]           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664



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