Re: [GENERAL] Postgres's Performance degrades after heavy db operation

2009-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Preeti Khurana" : > I checked the release notes till 8.1.17, but could not come across any such > issue which leads to db performance degradation after doing heavy db > operations. I don't think that was his point. I expect it was something more along the lines of crashing bugs

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres's Performance degrades after heavy db operation

2009-06-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
2009/6/10 Preeti Khurana : > I checked the release notes till 8.1.17, but could not come across any such > issue which leads to db performance degradation after doing heavy db > operations. AutoVacuum is also enabled parallel. Note that you might be much better served moving to 8.3 if HOT can he

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres's Performance degrades after heavy db operation

2009-06-10 Thread Preeti Khurana
08, 2009 9:59 PM To: Preeti Khura Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres's Performance degrades after heavy db operation oh, and take the time to upgrade to newest 8.1.X as the matter of urgency!. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.or

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres's Performance degrades after heavy db operation

2009-06-08 Thread Tom Lane
Vick Khera writes: > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Preeti > Khurana wrote: >> Any ideas/pointers on what could be making the DB slow after all these heavy >> operations being performed? > It seems autovacuum is not running often enough. 8.1's autovacuum isn't very aggressive by default. You m

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres's Performance degrades after heavy db operation

2009-06-08 Thread Vick Khera
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Preeti Khurana wrote: > Any ideas/pointers on what could be making the DB slow after all these heavy > operations being performed? It seems autovacuum is not running often enough. You may wish to include vacuum in your data update/delete programs so that it runs af

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres's Performance degrades after heavy db operation

2009-06-08 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
oh, and take the time to upgrade to newest 8.1.X as the matter of urgency!. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres's Performance degrades after heavy db operation

2009-06-08 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Preeti Khurana wrote: > Hi, > >    I am using Postgresql 8.1.2 and performing quite a huge number of db > operations ( insert/update/ delete) in around 4 tables. Around 3 million of > db is inserted and then 600 K rows are updated for around 5-6 times during a > day.

[GENERAL] Postgres's Performance degrades after heavy db operation

2009-06-08 Thread Preeti Khurana
Hi, I am using Postgresql 8.1.2 and performing quite a huge number of db operations ( insert/update/ delete) in around 4 tables. Around 3 million of db is inserted and then 600 K rows are updated for around 5-6 times during a day. Its observed that running this process for few days ( 5-6 days)