On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 03:08:30PM +1000, Alison Winters wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Our application requires a number of processes to select and update rows
> from a very small (<10 rows) Postgres table on a regular and frequent
> basis. These processes often run for weeks at a time, but over the
> space of a few days we find that updates start getting painfully slow.
> We are running a full vacuum/analyze and reindex on the table every day,
Full vacuum, eh? I wonder if what you really need is very frequent
non-full vacuum. Say, once in 15 minutes (exact rate depending on dead
tuple rate.)
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