> <mailto:dbucherml@hsolutions.ch>> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I need to optimize a database used by approx 10 people, I don't need to > have the perfect config, simply to avoid stupid bottle necks and follow > the best practices... > > The database is used from a web interface the whole work day with > "normal" requests (nothing very special). > > And each morning huge tables are DELETED and all data is INSERTed new > from a script. (Well, "huge" is very relative, it's only 400'000 > records) > > use truncate, to clear the tables.
Oh yes, instead of DELETE FROM table; ? Ok thanks for the tip
> For now, we only planned a VACUUM ANALYSE eacha night. > > if it is 8.3+, don't , as autovacuum takes care of that.
8.1.17
> But the database complained about checkpoint_segments (currently = 3) > > depending on traffic, that's pretty low. You should increment it, beyond > 12 if possible.
Ok no problem in increasing this value, to, let's say... 50 ?
yes. This simply means, that in case of any failure (power outage, etc) - data log could be slightly older, but if you have busy DB on the other hand - low number here, means a lot of checkpoints written - which slows down performance. So it is a trade-off. 8.1 is pretty old. Go for 8.3 if you want something old enough (as in, stable-and-old-but-not-too-old). Or 8.4 if you are interested in newest features.
