Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Karl Wright wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Can you afford to vacuum them in parallel?
>
Hmm, interesting question. If VACUUM is disk limited then it wouldn't
help, probably, unless I moved various tables to different disks
somehow. Let me think about whether that might be possible.
Karl