Kind of off-topic, but I've found that putting the history table on a separate spindle (using a separate tablespace)
alsohelps improve performance.
--Richard
On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> 2010/4/8 Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>:
>> previous to 8.2, to get good performance on zabbix you need to
>> aggressively vacuum the heavily updated tables yourself.
>
> Generally if you DON'T vacuum aggressively enough, then vacuums will
> take a really long and painful amount of time, perhaps accounting for
> the "hang" the OP observed. There's really no help for it but to
> sweat it out once, and then do it frequently enough afterward that it
> doesn't become a problem.
>
> ...Robert
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