On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:56 AM, zxo102 ouyang<zxo102@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
> I have an application with a database (pgsql) which has a big table (>
> 10 millions records) in windows 2003. Some times, I need to install the new
> version of the application. Here is what I did: 1. back up the big table
> via pgadmin III, 2. stop the pgsql in the old version of the application,
> 3. install the new version of the application (pgsql is included and all
> tables keep same like before) and 4. recovering the data(> 10 millions
> records) into the table from the backup file.
> After I restart the application, searching the table becomes very very
> slow (much slower than the searching in the old version). I don't know what
> is wrong with it. pgsql needs time to "reindexing" those 10 millions records
> for the searching?
This is because you missed vacuum analyze in those steps, that should
be done right after restore.
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GJ
