Bruno,
thanks for the reply,
we did run vaccum on it.. and we do it regulary to maintain its
performance but its not giving the expected results.
I dont know but if we delete the entire database and restore it with
the dump, then things seems to improve a _LOT_.
Isnt vaccum suppose to do the same task for us ??
what could be going any idea ??
tx in advance
-sunil
On 8/26/05, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 22:13:04 +0530,
> sunil arora <arora.sunil@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > this is my first post to this emailing list. We are using postgres-7.4
> > in a Server based application which requires frequent updates and
> > inserts of the database. We have observed a substantial fall in the
> > performance of database server over the time. It works fine for some
> > initial days and then its performace falls... and goes on falling as
> > the days passes by ( there is not much increase in the size of the
> > database)
> >
> > I have heard that updates and deletes in any DB bring in some sort of
> > fregmentation in the database, and we are using vaccum feature ot the
> > postgres to defragment. We have also tweaked the performance
> > parameters in postgresql.conf ... but its not helping.
>
> Are you vacuuming the database?
>
> If you haven't been, you will probably need to do a vacuum full now to get
> things down to a reasonable size. You should have regularly scheduled
> vacuum runs to allow for reuse of deleted tuples. In 8.0 there is a contrib
> package that does automated vacuum scheduling. In the upcoming 8.1 release
> (just in beta) that feature is part of the core distribution.
>
> If you haven't already, you should read through the server administration
> part of the documention.
>
