Thread: Temporary Table
Does Creating Temporary table in a function and NOT dropping them affects the performance of the database?
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Christian Paul B. Cosinas wrote: > Does Creating Temporary table in a function and NOT dropping them affects > the performance of the database? The system will drop it automatically, so it shouldn't affect. What _could_ be affecting you if you execute that function a lot, is accumulated bloat in pg_class, pg_attribute, or other system catalogs. You may want to make sure these are vacuumed often. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Christian Paul B. Cosinas wrote: > >> Does Creating Temporary table in a function and NOT dropping them affects >> the performance of the database? >> > > The system will drop it automatically, so it shouldn't affect. > > What _could_ be affecting you if you execute that function a lot, is > accumulated bloat in pg_class, pg_attribute, or other system catalogs. > You may want to make sure these are vacuumed often. > > The answer in my experience is a very loud YES YES YES If you use lots of temporary tables you will grow and dirty your system catalogs, so you need to be vacuuming them regularly also (pg_call, pg_attribute) Otherwise your db will slow to a crawl after a while. Ralph
In what directory in my linux server will I find these 3 tables? -----Original Message----- From: Alvaro Nunes Melo [mailto:al_nunes@atua.com.br] Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:49 AM To: Christian Paul B. Cosinas Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Temporary Table Christian Paul B. Cosinas wrote: >I am creating a temporary table in every function that I execute. >Which I think is bout 100,000 temporary tables a day. > > I think that a lot. ;) >What is the command for vacuuming these 3 tables? > > VACUUM FULL pg_class; VACUUM FULL pg_attribute; VACUUM FULL pg_depend; I'm using this ones. Before using them, take a look in the size that this tables are using in your HD, and compare to what you get after running this commands. I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you? http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html
I try to run this command in my linux server.
VACUUM FULL pg_class;
VACUUM FULL pg_attribute;
VACUUM FULL pg_depend;
But it give me the following error:
-bash: VACUUM: command not found
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Christian Paul B. Cosinas wrote: > I try to run this command in my linux server. > VACUUM FULL pg_class; > VACUUM FULL pg_attribute; > VACUUM FULL pg_depend; > > But it give me the following error: > -bash: VACUUM: command not found That needs to be run from psql ... > > > > > > I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you? > http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org
Ummm...they're SQL commands. Run them in PostgreSQL, not on the unix command line... Christian Paul B. Cosinas wrote: > I try to run this command in my linux server. > VACUUM FULL pg_class; > VACUUM FULL pg_attribute; > VACUUM FULL pg_depend; > > But it give me the following error: > -bash: VACUUM: command not found > > > > > > I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you? > http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org
> In what directory in my linux server will I find these 3 tables? Directory? They're tables in your database...
I see. But How Can I put this in the Cron of my Linux Server? I really don't have an idea :) What I want to do is to loop around all the databases in my server and execute the vacuum of these 3 tables in each tables. -----Original Message----- From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd@commandprompt.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 2:11 AM To: Christian Paul B. Cosinas Cc: 'Alvaro Nunes Melo'; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Temporary Table Christian Paul B. Cosinas wrote: > I try to run this command in my linux server. > VACUUM FULL pg_class; > VACUUM FULL pg_attribute; > VACUUM FULL pg_depend; > > But it give me the following error: > -bash: VACUUM: command not found That needs to be run from psql ... > > > > > > I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you? > http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html > > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you? http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html
Or you could just run the 'vacuumdb' utility... Put something like this in cron: # Vacuum full local pgsql database 30 * * * * postgres vacuumdb -a -q -z You really should read the manual. Chris Christian Paul B. Cosinas wrote: > I see. > > But How Can I put this in the Cron of my Linux Server? > I really don't have an idea :) > What I want to do is to loop around all the databases in my server and > execute the vacuum of these 3 tables in each tables. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd@commandprompt.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 2:11 AM > To: Christian Paul B. Cosinas > Cc: 'Alvaro Nunes Melo'; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Temporary Table > > Christian Paul B. Cosinas wrote: > >>I try to run this command in my linux server. >>VACUUM FULL pg_class; >>VACUUM FULL pg_attribute; >>VACUUM FULL pg_depend; >> >>But it give me the following error: >> -bash: VACUUM: command not found > > > That needs to be run from psql ... > > >> >> >> >> >>I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you? >>http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html >> >> >>---------------------------(end of >>broadcast)--------------------------- >>TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? >> >> http://archives.postgresql.org > > > > I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you? > http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
You can use the vacuumdb external command. Here's an example: vacuumdb --full --analyze --table mytablename mydbname On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Christian Paul B. Cosinas wrote: > But How Can I put this in the Cron of my Linux Server? > I really don't have an idea :) > What I want to do is to loop around all the databases in my server and > execute the vacuum of these 3 tables in each tables. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd@commandprompt.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 2:11 AM > To: Christian Paul B. Cosinas > Cc: 'Alvaro Nunes Melo'; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Temporary Table > > Christian Paul B. Cosinas wrote: >> I try to run this command in my linux server. >> VACUUM FULL pg_class; >> VACUUM FULL pg_attribute; >> VACUUM FULL pg_depend; >> >> But it give me the following error: >> -bash: VACUUM: command not found > > That needs to be run from psql ... > >> >> >> >> >> >> I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you? >> http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html >> >> >> ---------------------------(end of >> broadcast)--------------------------- >> TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? >> >> http://archives.postgresql.org > > > I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you? > http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > -- Jeff Frost, Owner <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com> Frost Consulting, LLC http://www.frostconsultingllc.com/ Phone: 650-780-7908 FAX: 650-649-1954
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 10:22 +0000, Christian Paul B. Cosinas wrote:
> I see.
>
> But How Can I put this in the Cron of my Linux Server?
> I really don't have an idea :)
> What I want to do is to loop around all the databases in my server and
> execute the vacuum of these 3 tables in each tables.
I usually write a small shell script something like:
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#!/bin/sh
psql somedatabase <<EOQ
VACUUM this;
VACUUM that;
DELETE FROM someotherplace WHERE delete_this_record;
EOQ
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and so forth...
This makes the SQL quite nicely readable.
Regards,
Andrew McMillan.
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