Re: Defining performance.

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Tobias Brox <tobias(at)nordicbet(dot)com>
Cc: Paul Lathrop <plathrop(at)squaretrade(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Defining performance.
Date: 2006-12-01 00:57:54
Message-ID: 1164934674.7773.148.camel@dogma.v10.wvs
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On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 01:05 +0100, Tobias Brox wrote:
> > However, we still are suffering a gradual decrease in performance over
> > time - or so the application engineers claim. The DBA and I have been
> > banging our heads against this for a month.
>
> We're having the same issues, so we do the dumping and restoring every
> now and then to be sure everything is properly cleaned up. With 8.1.
>

What's causing that? Is it index bloat?

I would think a REINDEX would avoid having to dump/restore, right? A
CLUSTER might also be necessary, depending on what kind of performance
degradation you're experiencing.

Am I missing something?

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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