Re: [PERFORM] CREATE TABLE slowing down significantly over time

2009-11-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Aris Samad-Yahaya wrote: > We vacuum analyze nightly, and vacuum normally ad-hoc (but we're going to > schedule this weekly moving forward). > > Interesting pointer about system catalog bloat. I tried to vacuum full the > system catalog tables (pg_*), and the perfor

Re: [PERFORM] CREATE TABLE slowing down significantly over time

2009-11-07 Thread Aris Samad-Yahaya
We vacuum analyze nightly, and vacuum normally ad-hoc (but we're going to schedule this weekly moving forward). Interesting pointer about system catalog bloat. I tried to vacuum full the system catalog tables (pg_*), and the performance for creating a single table manually improved dramatically (b

Re: [PERFORM] CREATE TABLE slowing down significantly over time

2009-11-07 Thread Aris Samad-Yahaya
Hi Craig, Yes we do put the creation of the 300 tables into a single transaction. The difference between putting them in a single transaction and individual transactions is about 30 seconds over the 3 minutes. As for the creation of 300 individual tables for an account... yes we were trying to th

Re: [PERFORM] CREATE TABLE slowing down significantly over time

2009-11-07 Thread Craig Ringer
On 8/11/2009 11:15 AM, Aris Samad-Yahaya wrote: > It used to take about 15 seconds to create those 300 tables in a new > schema (when there were only a few schemas, say about 50). It now takes > about 3 minutes (and now we have about 200 schemas, with more data but > not hugely so). 200 schemas,

Re: [PERFORM] CREATE TABLE slowing down significantly over time

2009-11-07 Thread Tom Lane
"Aris Samad-Yahaya" writes: > I'm facing a problem where running a CREATE TABLE has slowed down > significantly over time. System catalog bloat maybe? What are your vacuuming practices? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@pos

[PERFORM] CREATE TABLE slowing down significantly over time

2009-11-07 Thread Aris Samad-Yahaya
I'm facing a problem where running a CREATE TABLE has slowed down significantly over time. This is problematic because my application needs to routinely create a new schema and create 300 tables in each new schema. In total it takes about 3 minutes, which may not seem like a big deal, but this