This is my first (and, by the love of the God, last) project w/pgsql and everything but the simplest selects is so slow I want to cry. This is especially bad with vacuum analyze - it takes several hours for a database of mere 15 Gb on a fast double-core server w/2Gb of RAM and virtually no workload at the moment. Maintenance work mem is set to 512 Mb. Is there any way to speed up ANALYZE? Without it all the queries run so slow that I want to cry after a couple of hours of operation and with it system has to go down for hours per day and that is unacceptable. The same database running on mysql on basically the same server used to run optimize table on every table every half an hour without any problem, I am actually pondering scraping half the work on the conversion and stuff and going back to mysql but I wonder if there's some way to improve it.
