Re: [PERFORM] Performance degredation at client site

2005-01-31 Thread Bill Chandler
Tom, Thank you! I will have the client try that. What about the event_tbl_evt_id_key index question. Could that also be causing me difficulties? Should I periodically reindex it? thanks, Bill --- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Update pr

Re: [PERFORM] Performance degredation at client site

2005-01-31 Thread PFC
Do I understand correctly, however, that when you create a unique SERIAL column an index is automatically created on that column? If so, does that sound like a possible culprit? We are not doing any reindexing on that index at all. Could it be suffering from index bloat? Do we need to periodic

Re: [PERFORM] Performance degredation at client site

2005-01-31 Thread Tom Lane
Bill Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Update processes run continually throughout the day in > which rows are inserted but none deleted. What about row updates? > Even seemingly simple commands are taking forever. > For example: > select evt_id from event_tbl where evt_id=1; > takes over a

[PERFORM] Performance degredation at client site

2005-01-31 Thread Bill Chandler
Hello, Client is seeing continual performance degradation on updates and queries from a large database. Any help appreciated. Client is using PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on Sparcv9 650MHZ cpu, 2GB Ram, running Solaris. We have the following tables: EVENT_TBL evt_id bigserial, unique d1 n