Re: pg_attribute size - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: pg_attribute size
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Msg-id dcc563d10910261627h4ec4b7b8y9409d36f6cdf9893@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: pg_attribute size  (Anj Adu <fotographs@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: pg_attribute size  (Anj Adu <fotographs@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Anj Adu <fotographs@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have several partitioned tables that get dropped every day ..We do
> not do autovacuum as it is an IO hog (and most tables are dropped
> anyways..and the large tables are never updated)..

1: autovac can be adjusted to use much less IO than regular vacuum.
2: You can tell it to ignore certain tables.

> I however did a plain vacuum analyze and that fixed the problem with
> tools(e.g pgadmin) that accessed the data dictionary and were very
> slow before the vacuum.

Huh.  Is the pg_attribute size much smaller?

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