On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 09:23 -0700, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>> I already asked this basic question on the slony mailing lists, but
>> they seem kinda quiet this week.
>>
>> So, I've got a database with about 30,000 objects in it, and running
>> the setaddtable() function is taking about 30 seconds, and spinning a
>> CPU 100% while doing it.
>
> auto_explain may be able to help. It can automatically collect slow
> queries and provide explain analyze output, even for queries inside
> functions.
Thanks I'll take a look. I'm afraid that I might not get much out of
it if the cost is hidden by the function. But it's a start.