Re: [PERFORM] very slow simple query - outer join makes it quicker

2004-04-19 Thread Rod Taylor
ou're not running regular VACUUM frequently enough and/or your fsm_* settings are too low. > -Original Message- > From: Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Postgresql Performance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:01:15 -040

Re: [PERFORM] very slow simple query - outer join makes it quicker

2004-04-19 Thread Rod Taylor
> There are other tables, such as the messages table, that have 10s of > thousands of rows and they return records much more quickly. > There must be something seriously wrong for simple queries like this to take > so long. Have you run VACUUM recently? If not, run VACUUM FULL against the u

[PERFORM] very slow simple query - outer join makes it quicker

2004-04-19 Thread Gerard Isdell
Hi Everyone I am new to this group and relatively new to Postgres, having used MSSQL 7 up until now. One table in my database in returning even the simplest of queries extremely slowly. The table is user table, and even the select userid from users takes over 20 seconds to run. There are abou