Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:
> Probably I found the problem. After running my test, whiich became
> very slow I looked at /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/discovery
> -rw------- 1 postgres users 5070848 Jul 27 16:14 hits
> -rw------- 1 postgres users 1409024 Jul 27 16:14 hits_pkey
> This is for table with one row after a lot of updates.
> Too much. vacuum analyze this table was a good medicine !
If the table contains only one row, why are you bothering with an
index on it?
> Is this a design problem ?
Only that space in tables and indexes can't be re-used until vacuum.
I'm not sure if there's any good way around that or not...
regards, tom lane
