Re: Possible explanations for catastrophic performace deterioration? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Possible explanations for catastrophic performace deterioration?
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Msg-id 21428.1190568455@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Possible explanations for catastrophic performace deterioration?  ("Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>)
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"Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com> writes:
> My guess is that a vacuum full would've brought the other database
> back up to speed.

Yeah, table bloat is what it sounds like to me too.

> In the future, you probably want to set fillfactor
> to a reasonable amount to account for updates-to-blocks-between-vacuum
> to try and capture as few row-migrations as possible.

More to the point, check your FSM size and make sure vacuums are
happening often enough.

            regards, tom lane

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