Re: count(*) performance - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Guido Neitzer
Subject Re: count(*) performance
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Msg-id 2C2F0FEF-084D-422C-A355-373CD18C38B3@pharmaline.de
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In response to Re: count(*) performance  (Brendan Duddridge <brendan@clickspace.com>)
List pgsql-performance
On 27.03.2006, at 21:20 Uhr, Brendan Duddridge wrote:

> Does that mean that even though autovacuum is turned on, you still
> should do a regular vacuum analyze periodically?

It seems that there are situations where autovacuum does not a really
good job.

However, in our application I have made stupid design decision which
I want to change as soon as possible. I have a "visit count" column
in one of the very large tables, so updates are VERY regular. I've
just checked and saw that autovacuum does a great job with that.

Nevertheless I have set up a cron job to do a standard vacuum every
month. I've used vacuum full only once after I did a bulk update of
about 200.000 rows ...

cug

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