Re: postgres eating CPU on HP9000 - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: postgres eating CPU on HP9000
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Msg-id 29372.1080347789@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to postgres eating CPU on HP9000  (Fabio Esposito <nfesposi@sourceweave.net>)
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Fabio Esposito <nfesposi@sourceweave.net> writes:
>> Did you start from a fresh initdb, or just drop and recreate user
>> tables?  I'm wondering about index bloat on the system tables ...

> I don't think I re initdb it, just dropped.  We did try a reindex command
> in the interactive editor, with no success.

Reindex of what?  I'd suggest looking to see the actual sizes of all the
indexes on system tables.  If my guess is right, some of them may be way
out of line (like larger than their associated tables).

            regards, tom lane

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