Re: Defining performance. - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: Defining performance.
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Msg-id 1164934674.7773.148.camel@dogma.v10.wvs
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In response to Re: Defining performance.  (Tobias Brox <tobias@nordicbet.com>)
Responses Re: Defining performance.  (Tobias Brox <tobias@nordicbet.com>)
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On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 01:05 +0100, Tobias Brox wrote:
> > However, we still are suffering a gradual decrease in performance over
> > time - or so the application engineers claim. The DBA and I have been
> > banging our heads against this for a month.
>
> We're having the same issues, so we do the dumping and restoring every
> now and then to be sure everything is properly cleaned up.  With 8.1.
>

What's causing that? Is it index bloat?

I would think a REINDEX would avoid having to dump/restore, right? A
CLUSTER might also be necessary, depending on what kind of performance
degradation you're experiencing.

Am I missing something?

Regards,
    Jeff Davis


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