Re: Bad rules

Steve King <steve(dot)king(at)ecmsys(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> I am using postgres 7.2, and have rule on a table which causes a notify if
> an insert/update/delete is performed on the table.
> The table is very very small.
> When performing a simple (very simple) update on the table this takes about
> 3 secs, when I remove the rule it is virtually instantaneous.
> The rest of the database seems to perform fine, have you any ideas or come
> across this before??

Let's see the rule exactly? NOTIFY per se is not slow in my experience.

(One thing to ask: have you done a VACUUM FULL on pg_listener in recent
memory? Heavy use of LISTEN/NOTIFY does tend to bloat that table if you
don't keep after it with VACUUM.)

regards, tom lane