Re: Vacum Analyze problem

In response to rafael(at)akyasociados(dot)com(dot)ar:

> Hello everyone:
>
> I wanted to ask you about how the VACUUM ANALYZE works. is it possible
> that something can happen in order to reset its effects forcing to execute
> the VACUUM ANALYZE comand again? i am asking this because i am struggling
> with a query which works ok after i run a VACUUM ANALYZE, however, sudennly,
> it starts to take forever (the execution of the query) until i make another
> VACUUM ANALYZE, and so on ...
> I'd like to point that i am a novice when it comes to non basic
> postgresql performance related stuff.
>
> Thank you all in advance

To add to Mikko's comments:

Periodic vacuuming and analyzing is a mandatory part of running a
PostgreSQL database server. You'll probably be best served to configure
the autovacuum daemon to handle this for you. See the postgresql.conf
config file.

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