Re: Why so slow?

From: Markus Schaber <schabi(at)logix-tt(dot)com>
To: Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com>
Cc: Bealach-na Bo <bealach_na_bo(at)hotmail(dot)com>, ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Why so slow?
Date: 2006-05-02 17:16:12
Message-ID: 445793DC.40401@logix-tt.com
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Hi, Bill,

Bill Moran wrote:

> My understanding is basically that if you vacuum with the correct
> frequency, you'll never need to vacuum full. This is why the
> autovacuum system is so nice, it adjusts the frequency of vacuum according
> to how much use the DB is getting.

Additonally, the "free_space_map" setting has to be high enough, it has
to cover enough space to put in all pages that get dead rows between two
vacuum runs.

HTH,
Markus

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