Re: Strange..!!! Can u tell me why this ?

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Pandurang <pandurang(at)manas-solutions(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Strange..!!! Can u tell me why this ?
Date: 2002-10-28 16:38:48
Message-ID: 20021028083802.J79386-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On 26 Oct 2002, Pandurang wrote:

> But Later on as the DB size get increased the time was also get
> increased. And at one point i noticed the time required to gererate
> this report is very high near abt 10 to 15 hrs. So I checked for
> performanance.
>
> Site was also become very slow. A simple page which is fetching just
> 20 records, for that also I got the error page not displayed.I tried
> my level best to find out the problem. But I couldn't...!!! :-((
>
> So at last I decided to drop DB and recreate once more after taking
> backup of data. And I did that. After that i was surprised that site
> become very very fast. And the pages for which I got the error comes
> in less than 10 seconds.
>
> So can u tell me why this happens ? Why suddenly DB performanance get
> increased so fastly ? Prev.ly I tried for vacuumdb also....

You tried vacuuming, but were you doing analyze (I believe -z to
vacuumdb)? What does explain show for the queries in question?

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