Howdy, 

I am expiriencing some performance issues, on a table in my postgres db.

I cron script is being run every night (while very low db activity),
that deletes all rows from the table, and injects a bunch of new data...
Every day between 60.000 and 100.000 rows.

Info:
ppdb=> select version();
                                            version                                    
         
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 PostgreSQL 7.4.1 on i386-portbld-freebsd5.2, compiled by GCC cc (GCC)
3.3.3 [FreeBSD] 20031106
(1 row)

ppdb=> \d itxhas     
                                     Table "public.itxhas"
   Column    |            Type             |
Modifiers                      
-------------+-----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------
 hasid       | integer                     | not null default
nextval('itxhas_hasid_seq'::text)
 partno      | character varying(60)       | 
 mfg         | character varying(25)       | 
 qty         | character varying(20)       | 
 condition   | character varying(20)       | 
 gescode     | character varying(10)       | 
 cmup        | numeric(14,2)               | 
 create_date | timestamp without time zone | 
 posted_date | timestamp without time zone | 
 status      | character varying(15)       | 
 company_id  | integer                     | 
 die_date    | timestamp without time zone | 
Indexes:
    "itx_create_date_idx" btree (create_date


Every time I need to select something from this table, I feel it takes
way too long.. 

I have run vacuum analyze without improvement.

ppdb=> explain select count(*) from itxhas;
                             QUERY PLAN                             
--------------------------------------------------------------------
 Aggregate  (cost=78472.86..78472.86 rows=1 width=0)
   ->  Seq Scan on itxhas  (cost=0.00..78253.09 rows=87909 width=0)
(2 rows)



ppdb=> explain analyze select count(*) from itxhas;
                                                        QUERY PLAN                     
                                   
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Aggregate  (cost=78472.86..78472.86 rows=1 width=0) (actual
time=24242.717..24242.719 rows=1 loops=1)
   ->  Seq Scan on itxhas  (cost=0.00..78253.09 rows=87909 width=0)
(actual time=23763.883..24122.221 rows=87909 loops=1)
 Total runtime: 24242.844 ms
(3 rows)


Is this normal ? If I run the same select on another table in the same
database with ~40.000 rows, it takes approx 820.00ms... 

Any ideas ?

/mich

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