First, thank-you for an excellent complete question with versions,
EXPLAIN ANALYZE, and exact messages.
My reply is interleaved below.
On 07/26/2012 03:44 PM, Thomas Markus wrote:
I have 2 systems with CentOS 5.5 (2.6.18) x86_64, postgresql-9.0.6 64bit
both systems contains the same content. But one system make troubles.
some system tables (eg pg_catalog.pg_class or pg_attribute) contain
much dead rows and all simple query take much time on one system. the
other one is fast.
[snip]
other:
INFO: "pg_class": found 0 removable, 1547667 nonremovable row
versions in 31587 out of 31587 pages
DETAIL: 1545530 dead row versions cannot be removed yet.
a "select count(*) from pg_catalog.pg_class" returns only 2137
OK, so you have lots of bloat in the system catalogs. A few things to
check for:
- Do you have any uncommitted two phase transactions? Run:
SELECT * from pg_prepared_xacts ;
- Do you have any long-lived 'IDLE IN TRANSACTION' connections ? Try:
SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE current_query = '<IDLE> in
transaction' AND xact_start > current_timestamp - '1 minute'::interval;
Either of those can prevent vacuum from cleaning things up.
Do you very frequently create and drop tables, indexes, etc? Say, using
a database unit testing framework?
--
Craig Ringer
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