Re: postgre performance question

> > Again at midnight, all the entries from the table are removed and the
> > table is vacuumed (I want to make this clear).

If you are "removing all of the the entries" from the table, and then
vacuuming/analysing, then the stats table will be updated for the object
with no rows in it. Query plans for any select from that point on, will be
forced to do a table scan.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug McNaught" <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com>
To: "Ioannis Kappas" <Ioannis(dot)Kappas(at)dante(dot)org(dot)uk>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 2:34 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] postgre performance question

> Ioannis Kappas <Ioannis(dot)Kappas(at)dante(dot)org(dot)uk> writes:
>
> > ... it really does clean the table at midnight and then immediately
> > vacuums the table after it.
> > What it really does is to populate the table with two hundred thousand
> > of entries each day and
> > later on the table will be populated with million of entries each day.
> > Again at midnight, all the entries from the table are removed and the
> > table is vacuumed (I want to make this clear).
>
> Thanks for the clarification. Are you doing a lot of updates during
> the day, or just inserts?
>
> > Do you think this is the expected behaviour I am getting? Can I do
> > something to improve the
> > perfrormance? Should I try to find another database that can handle
> > such `big?' amount of entries?
> > Can I change something on the configuration of the database that will
> > speed up the queries?
>
> Well, if you're selecting every record from a table with millions of
> records, any database is going to be slow. There, the bottleneck is
> disk i/o and how fast the server can send data to the client.
>
> For more selective queries, make sure you:
>
> 1) VACUUM ANALYZE (or just ANALYZE in 7.2) after the table is populated.
> 2) Put indexes on the appropriate columns (depends on what queries you
> make).
>
> Without seeing your schema and the queries you're running, it's hard
> to give you any more advice.
>
> -Doug
> --
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> --T. J. Jackson, 1863
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