Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Karl Wright wrote:
>
>> (b) the performance of individual queries had already degraded
>> significantly in the same manner as what I'd seen before.
>
> You didn't answer whether you had smaller, more frequently updated
> tables that need more vacuuming. This comment makes me think you do. I
> think what you should be looking at is whether you can forget vacuuming
> the whole database in one go, and make it more granular.
>
I am afraid that I did answer this. My largest tables are the ones
continually being updated. The smaller ones are updated only infrequently.
Karl