Re: [GENERAL] Long-running performance (MVCC, Vacuum, etc.) - Any fix?

2004-12-28 Thread Greg Stark
Eric Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My application is multi-threaded and I could care less about the concurrency > afforded by MVCC. I'd rather just update the things in place and get less > postgresql concurrency but more consistent long-running performance and disk > space utilization. Po

Re: [GENERAL] Long-running performance (MVCC, Vacuum, etc.) - Any fix?

2004-12-28 Thread Vivek Khera
> "MvO" == Martijn van Oosterhout writes: MvO> I'd suggest, use the autovacuum daemon, tune your FSM settings to what MvO> you expect the load to be and maybe schedule a database-wide MvO> REINDEX/VACUUM FULL regularly. We found doing it once a month was MvO> enough to keep it tip-top over th

Re: [GENERAL] Long-running performance (MVCC, Vacuum, etc.) - Any fix?

2004-12-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:40:52AM -0800, Eric Brown wrote: > I'm building an appliance where I don't want my customers having to > tune postgresql in any way from the configuration when I install it. I > don't even want them to know it is there. Yet in my study of posgresql, > it seems that eve

[GENERAL] Long-running performance (MVCC, Vacuum, etc.) - Any fix?

2004-12-28 Thread Eric Brown
I'm building an appliance where I don't want my customers having to tune postgresql in any way from the configuration when I install it. I don't even want them to know it is there. Yet in my study of posgresql, it seems that even conscientious use of a vacuum daemon or cron job in vacuum's vari