Re: [PERFORM] Can anyone explain this: duplicate dbs.

2005-05-24 Thread SpaceBallOne
What version of postgres? 8.0.2 ... but I think I've seen this before on 7.3 ... There are a few possibilities. If you are having a lot of updates to the table, you can get index bloat. And vacuum doesn't fix indexes. You have to REINDEX to do that. Though REINDEX has the same lock that

[PERFORM] poor performance of db?

2005-01-24 Thread SpaceBallOne
Hello everyone,First time poster to the mailing list here. We have been running pgsql for about a year now at a pretty basic level (I guess) as a backend for custom web(intranet)applicationsoftware. Our database so far is a "huge" (note sarcasm) 10 Mb containing of about 6 or so principle

Re: [PERFORM] poor performance of db?

2005-01-24 Thread SpaceBallOne
, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Andrei Reinus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SpaceBallOne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 5:22 PM Subject: Re: [PERFORM] poor performance of db? SpaceBallOne wrote: Hello everyone, First time

Re: [PERFORM] poor performance of db?

2005-01-24 Thread SpaceBallOne
index themselves. I didn't do a vacuum analyse on them so that may explain why they didn't seem to do much. Thanks, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: John Arbash Meinel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SpaceBallOne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 9:56 AM Subject: Re