[ADMIN] vacuuming and reindexing

2009-03-20 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi Everybody, I have a table that I add rows every evening. A rule I have for this table is that no row ever gets deleted. It has 600+ million rows. The last time I did it, it took nearly 4 hours to vacuum and 13 hours 40 minutes to reindex. My rudimental understanding of vacuuming is that when

Re: [ADMIN] vacuuming and reindexing

2009-03-21 Thread Diogenes Caraballo
do you also update rows of that table? because that action delete old one's and insert new one's.. if you are just inserting rows and not updating or deleting, i think is correct your point. Regards, -- "Sin desafíos la vida es una rutina, una lenta agonía" Diógenes Caraballo On Fri, Ma

Re: [ADMIN] vacuuming and reindexing

2009-03-21 Thread Tena Sakai
s Caraballo [mailto:dio...@gmail.com] Sent: Sat 3/21/2009 6:31 AM To: Tena Sakai Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] vacuuming and reindexing do you also update rows of that table? because that action delete old one's and insert new one's.. if you are just inserting rows