Gábor Farkas wrote: > - this table has a lot of updates and inserts, it works very similarly > to a session-table for a web-application Make sure you run VACUUM often enough. > - there is a cron-job that deletes all the old entries, so it's size is > rougly between 15000 and 35000 entries (it's run daily, and every day > deletes around 10000 entries) Running vacuum after these deletes to immediately reclaim the dead space would also be a good idea. > - but in the past, the cron-job was not in place, so the table's size > grew to around 800000 entries (in around 80 days) That bloated your table, so that there's still a lot of empty pages in it. VACUUM FULL should bring it back to a reasonable size. Regular normal non-FULL VACUUMs should keep it in shape after that. -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
