On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:02:04AM -0800, CG wrote: > PostgreSQL 8.1.3 > > I'm trying to collect some hard numbers to show just how much it degrades and > over how long a time interval. > > All I have now is anecdotal evidence, and I was hoping to save myself some > downtime by seeking advice early. <snip> > I implimented this yesterday, and the immediate effect was a fantastic return > time for partial text searches in the sub-second range. By today, these queries > take 10 minutes sometimes... There are about 134000 rows in the table. > > The table gets analyzed nightly. Should the frequency be more? There are about > 1000 rows added a day, only about 30 or so rows removed, and nothing is ever > updated. There's not that much turnover. That's very odd. Like the other person said, do you vacuum and analyse? But my question is: is it using the index? What does EXPLAIN / EXPLAIN ANALYZE tell you? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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