Re: Enumeration of tables is very slow in largish database - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Enumeration of tables is very slow in largish database
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Msg-id 201201111444.34049.andres@anarazel.de
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In response to Enumeration of tables is very slow in largish database  (Kirill Müller <kirill.mueller@ivt.baug.ethz.ch>)
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Re: Enumeration of tables is very slow in largish database
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On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:07:23 AM Kirill Müller wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> we have a Postgres/PostGIS database with 100+ schemas and 200+ tables in
> each schema, generated automatically. When adding a new PostGIS layer in
> QGis, the application obviously enumerates all tables, and this takes
> minutes. Even browsing the database in pgAdmin3 is horribly slow -- it
> takes several seconds to e.g. open a schema (click on a schema's "+" in
> the tree view).
Are you actually sure its the database and not just pgadmin thats getting
really slow?

If you connect via psql and use \dt (see \? for a list of commands) and
consorts, is it that slow as well?

Andres

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