Ron St-Pierre wrote:
We have a web based application with data that is updated daily. The biggest bottleneck occurs when we try to update
one of the tables. This table contains 58,000 rows and 62 columns, and EVERY column is indexed. Every column is
queryable (?) by the users through the web interface so we are reluctant to remove the indexes (recreating them would
be time consuming too). The primary key is an INT and the rest of the columns are a mix of NUMERIC, TEXT, and DATEs.
A typical update is:
UPDATE dataTable SET field01=44.5, field02=44.5, field03='Bob',
field04='foo', ... , field60='2004-08-30', field61='2004-08-29'
WHERE id = 1234;
Also of note is that the update is run about 10 times per day; we get blocks of data from 10 different sources, so we pre-process the
data and then update the table. We also run VACUUM FULL ANALYZE on a nightly basis.
It now appears that VACUUM wasn't running properly. A manual VACUUM FULL ANALYZE VEBOSE told us that
approximately 275000 total pages were needed. I increased the max_fsm_pages to 300000, VACUUMED, renamed the
database and re-created it from backup, vacuumed numerous times, and the total fsm_pages needed continued to remain in
the 235000 -> 270000 range. This morning I deleted the original (renamed) database, and a VACUUM FULL ANALYZE
VEBOSE now says that only about 9400 pages are needed.
One question about redirecting VACUUMs output to file though. When I run: psql -d imperial -c "vacuum full verbose analyze;" > vac.info vac.info contains only the following line: VACUUM I've been unable to capture the VERBOSE output to file. Any suggestions?
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Also, thanks for everyone's input about my original posting, I am investigating some of the options mentioned to further increase
performance.
Ron
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