Dan Field wrote:
>
> On 24 May 2004, at 14:37, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Dan Field <dof@llgc.org.uk> writes:
>>
>>> I have a similar problem with just one of my queries (although it isn't
>>> a sub select):
>>
>>
>> You really ought to vacuum and/or analyze occasionally. The EXPLAIN
>> results show that the planner hasn't got any non-default statistics
>> for any of these tables.
>
>
> Wow, thanks for that. I'd been pulling my hair out for a couple of days
> wondering where I was going wrong.
> I went from 45 second queries down to sub second query lengths after a
> simple vacuum full analyze.
>
> I've now added nightly and monthly cron jobs to do this for me in future.
>
> Out of curiosity, why is this deemed a DBA task rather than an automated
> postgres task?
>
> Once again, many thanks.
You have to use the pg_autovacuum demon.
Run the vacuum full and the reindex once in a week.
Regards
Gaetano Mendola