We vacuum analyze nightly, and vacuum normally ad-hoc (but we're going to
schedule this weekly moving forward).
Interesting pointer about system catalog bloat. I tried to vacuum full the
system catalog tables (pg_*), and the performance for creating a single
table manually improved dramatically (back to what it used to be), but as
soon as I created the next schema, the performance went back down to the
same level.
So there's a clue there somewhere. Next I will try to vacuum full the entire
database.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:29 PM
To: Aris Samad-Yahaya
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] CREATE TABLE slowing down significantly over time
"Aris Samad-Yahaya" <aris@quickschools.com> writes:
> I'm facing a problem where running a CREATE TABLE has slowed down
> significantly over time.
System catalog bloat maybe? What are your vacuuming practices?
regards, tom lane
