Re: Help tuning postgres

From: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
Cc: postgres performance list <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Help tuning postgres
Date: 2005-10-13 08:15:03
Message-ID: 1129191303.2995.192.camel@coppola.muc.ecircle.de
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> Yes, but it could be a disk issue because you're doing more work than
> you need to. If your UPDATEs are chasing down a lot of dead tuples,
> for instance, you'll peg your I/O even though you ought to have I/O
> to burn.

OK, this sounds interesting, but I don't understand: why would an update
"chase down a lot of dead tuples" ? Should I read up on some docs, cause
I obviously don't know enough about how updates work on postgres...

And how would the analyze help in finding this out ? I thought it would
only show me additionally the actual timings, not more detail in what
was done...

Thanks,
Csaba.

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