On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Vincent Predoehl
<vpredoehl@phoenixwebgroup.com> wrote:
> I have postgresql 8.3.5 installed on MacOS X / Darwin. I remember setting
> shared memory buffer parameters and that solved the initial performance
> problem, but after running several tests, the performance goes way, way
> down. Restarting the server doesn't seem to help.
> I'm using pqxx to access the database, if that makes any difference.
Could be a vacuuming issue.
What does
vacuum verbose;
on the database say?