Re: count(*) performance

Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> But in this case, I'd bet money that if it's taking 4 minutes something
> else is wrong. Have you been vacuuming that table frequently enough?

That gave me an idea. I thought that autovacuum is doing it right, but I
issued a vacuum full analyze verbose , and it worked all the day.
After that I've tweaked memory settings a bit too (more fsm_pages)

Now:

staging=# SELECT count(*) from infx.infx_product;
   count
---------
  3284997
(1 row)

Time: 1301.049 ms

As I saw the output, the database was compressed to 10% of its size :)
This table has quite big changes every 4 hour, let's see how it works.
Maybe I'll have to issue full vacuums from cron regularly.

> What's SELECT relpages FROM pg_class WHERE relname='tablename' show?

This went to 10% as well, now it's around 156000 pages.

Regards,
Akos


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