On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:00:44PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> >>> I have a client with a database that contains 4000 relations according
> >>> to vacuum verbose, and \d in psql is painfully slow. In particular...
>
> It's presumably mostly in the pg_table_is_visible() calls. Not sure if
> we can do much to speed those up, but: how many schemas in your search
> path? What's the distribution of pg_class entries among the schemas?
db=# show search_path;decibel, pg_sysviews, information_schema, rrs, public
db=# select schema_name, count(*) from pg_user_tables group by schema_name;public | 764ledger |
6state | 2_track_replica | 10repair | 3summarized | 586orders | 512snapshot
| 1012acl | 10
db=#
Also, do you have any idea on the 'Did not find relation named
"table-thats-there"' error? table-thats-there isn't a temp table, and I don't
believe they're even using temp tables, so I don't think that's the issue.
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