Re: Turning off transactions completely.

Hi,

>> I would suggest to optimize your Application!
>
> First thing I did! :-)

OK, then sorry :)

I've a application where the tome consumption and amount of data is 
similar, so this was my first idea.


> 1. VACUUM is dead slow. The CPU monitor shows long stretches when there's
> barely any activity at all while the vacuum is going on.

yes :-(

I hope for the 7.2, it seems that Vacuum is much more faster there (but I 
didn't tested it yet).


> 2. I do vacuum analyze's to help the database figure out how to best run
> my queries. But it *still* doesnt use some of them...

I had the same problem; a simple (but dirty) solution was to disable 
sequential scans in postgresql.conf:

enable_seqscan = false

Ciao
 Alvar


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