with Postgresql 7.2.1 you will need to do BOTH vacuum and reindex and with a table that gets many updates/deletes, you
should run vacuum more than daily.
Both issues have been solved in 8.1.
Jim
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From: Emmanuel Lacour <elacour@easter-eggs.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Sent: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:57:11 +0100
Subject: [PERFORM] Query planner issue
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have the following problem, on a test server, if I do a fresh import
> of production data then run
> 'explain analyze select count(*) from mandats;'
>
> I get this result:
>
> Aggregate (cost=6487.32..6487.32 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=607.61..607.61 rows=1 loops=1)
> -> Seq Scan on mandats (cost=0.00..6373.26 rows=45626 width=0) (actual time=0.14..496.20 rows=45626
> loops=1) Total runtime: 607.95 msec
>
> On the production server, if I do the same (without other use of the server), I get:
>
> Aggregate (cost=227554.33..227554.33 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=230705.79..230705.79 rows=1 loops=1)
> -> Seq Scan on mandats (cost=0.00..227440.26 rows=45626 width=0) (actual time=0.03..230616.64 rows=45760
> loops=1) Total runtime: 230706.08 msec
>
> Is there anyone having an idea on how yo solve this poor performances? I
> think it is caused by many delete/insert on this table every day, but
> how to solve it, I need to run this qury each hour :(. I run
> vacuum each night, postgresql is unfortunatly 7.2.1 :( (no upgrade
> before 2 or 3 months).
>
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