Re: Sluggish inserts/updates ?

Adam Haberlach wrote:
> 
>         I've got a system in which a row is being created by one process,
> a notify is sent, and another process finds and then deletes the
> row.  This whole interchange seems to be taking about a second, which
> seems oddly slow. 

If you do it enough times without vacuum, the table grows quite big,
even 
though it may look empty...

> As far as I know, I have the fsync-on-anything
> turned off (*).
> 
>         I'm mainly wondering if I should index/not index the key of the
> table, and if I should blame the hardware or Postgres?

Index would very likely help. (BTW, the best way to find out is to try
it -
you can always drop it later ;)

> The hard
> drive on the R&D server is pretty slow, although the CPU is pretty
> dang fast.  I could also blame the notification system but that
> shouldn't be a problem, right?

How do you read the notify ?

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Hannu