* Jeremy Haile: > Good advice on the partitioning idea. I may have to restructure some of > my queries, since some of them query across the whole range - but it may > be a much more performant solution. How is the performance when > querying across a set of partitioned tables vs. querying on a single > table with all rows? Locality of access decreases, of course, and depending on your data size, you hit something like to 2 or 4 additional disk seeks per partition for index-based accesses. Sequential scans are not impacted. > Does my current approach of disabling autovacuum and manually vacuuming > once-an-hour sound like a good idea, or would I likely have better > results by auto-vacuuming and turning row-level stats back on? Sorry, I haven't got much experience with autovacuum, since most of other databases are INSERT-only (or get VACUUMed automatically after major updates). -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxx> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99