Re: Enumeration of tables is very slow in largish database

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Kirill Müller <kirill(dot)mueller(at)ivt(dot)baug(dot)ethz(dot)ch>
Subject: Re: Enumeration of tables is very slow in largish database
Date: 2012-01-11 13:44:33
Message-ID: 201201111444.34049.andres@anarazel.de
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On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:07:23 AM Kirill Müller wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> we have a Postgres/PostGIS database with 100+ schemas and 200+ tables in
> each schema, generated automatically. When adding a new PostGIS layer in
> QGis, the application obviously enumerates all tables, and this takes
> minutes. Even browsing the database in pgAdmin3 is horribly slow -- it
> takes several seconds to e.g. open a schema (click on a schema's "+" in
> the tree view).
Are you actually sure its the database and not just pgadmin thats getting
really slow?

If you connect via psql and use \dt (see \? for a list of commands) and
consorts, is it that slow as well?

Andres

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