On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:50:23 +0300, Andri Saar <andris@estpak.ee>
wrote:
>Basically I do this:
>1) select about ~700 ID's I have to poll
>2) poll them
>3) update those 700 rows in that "table" I used (~2700 rows total).
>
>And I do this cycle once per minute, so yes, I've got a zillion updates. 700
>of 2700 is roughly 25%, so I'd have to vacuum once per minute?
With such a small table VACUUM should be a matter of less than one
second:
fred=# vacuum verbose t;
INFO: --Relation public.t--
INFO: Index t_pkey: Pages 65; Tuples 16384: Deleted 4096.
CPU 0.01s/0.10u sec elapsed 0.21 sec.
INFO: Removed 4096 tuples in 154 pages.
CPU 0.04s/0.02u sec elapsed 0.07 sec.
INFO: Pages 192: Changed 192, Empty 0; Tup 16384: Vac 4096, Keep 0,
UnUsed 0.
Total CPU 0.08s/0.16u sec elapsed 0.36 sec.
VACUUM
Time: 415.00 ms
And this is on a 400 MHz machine under cygwin, so don't worry if you
have a real computer.
Servus
Manfred
