On Friday 14 November 2003 12:51, Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> my database seems to be taking too long for a select count(*)
> i think there are lot of dead rows. I do a vacuum full it improves
> bu again the performance drops in a short while ,
> can anyone please tell me if anything worng with my fsm settings
> current fsm=55099264 (not sure how i calculated it)

If you don't need exact count, you can use statistics. Just analyze frequently 
and you will get the statistics.

and I didn't exact;y understand this in the text.

INFO:  "profiles": found 0 removable, 369195 nonremovable row versions in 
43423 pages
DETAIL:  246130 dead row versions cannot be removed yet.

Is there a transaction holoding up large amount of stuff?

 Shridhar


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