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From C. Bensend
Subject Re: VARCHAR -vs- CHAR: huge performance difference?
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Msg-id 1185.134.244.169.17.1087396700.squirrel@webmail.stinkweasel.net
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In response to Re: VARCHAR -vs- CHAR: huge performance difference?  ("Scott Marlowe" <smarlowe@qwest.net>)
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> You might want to look into the autovacuum daemon, and / or increasing
> fsm settings to be large enough to hold all the spare tuples released by
> vacuuming.

IIRC, the autovacuum stuff was added in 7.4, which I'm not running (yet).
An upgrade to 7.4.3 might be prudent for me, while the database is still
small.

Benny


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