Re: Performance query about large tables, lots of concurrent access

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Karl Wright wrote:
>
>> (b) the performance of individual queries had already degraded
>> significantly in the same manner as what I'd seen before.
>
> You didn't answer whether you had smaller, more frequently updated
> tables that need more vacuuming.  This comment makes me think you do.  I
> think what you should be looking at is whether you can forget vacuuming
> the whole database in one go, and make it more granular.
>

I am afraid that I did answer this.  My largest tables are the ones
continually being updated.  The smaller ones are updated only infrequently.

Karl