Dan Field wrote:
On 24 May 2004, at 14:37, Tom Lane wrote:
Dan Field <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I have a similar problem with just one of my queries (although it isn't a sub select):
You really ought to vacuum and/or analyze occasionally. The EXPLAIN results show that the planner hasn't got any non-default statistics for any of these tables.
Wow, thanks for that. I'd been pulling my hair out for a couple of days wondering where I was going wrong.
I went from 45 second queries down to sub second query lengths after a simple vacuum full analyze.
I've now added nightly and monthly cron jobs to do this for me in future.
Out of curiosity, why is this deemed a DBA task rather than an automated postgres task?
Once again, many thanks.
You have to use the pg_autovacuum demon.
Run the vacuum full and the reindex once in a week.
Regards Gaetano Mendola
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