Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
>> If I pg_dump that database then create a new database (e.g. "tempdb")
>> and upload the dump file (thus making a duplicate) then the same query
>> only takes 190ms !!
>> Vacuum, vacuum analyse, and vacuum full analyse does not seem to have an
>> impact on these times.
> Damn, for some reason I didn't read that you had already tried vacuum
> full.
I'm thinking index bloat, and a PG version too old for vacuum full to
recover any index space. But without any information about PG version
or EXPLAIN ANALYZE results, we're all just guessing.
regards, tom lane
