On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 14:12, Warren wrote: > I have one table that gets slower and slower over time. It has a lot of > UPDATES INSERTS and DELETES run on it. It may have as many as 20,000 rows at > any given time. I am running autovacuum using the following command line: > > /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_autovacuum -D -s -S -L > /usr/local/pgsql/log/autovacuum -U postgres -P password -H 127.0.0.1 -p 5432 > > It does speed back up after I do a full vacuum on it. What can I do to keep > the performance consistent. You likely don't have high enough FSM settings. Run your database for a while (24 hours or so) without running a vacuum full. Regular vacuums are fine. Then, by hand, run vacuum verbose and it will tell you how many extra pages / slots you need.
