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Re: Performance problems testing with Spamassassin 3.1.0

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew McMillan <andrew@catalyst.net.nz>
Cc: Matthew Schumacher <matt.s@aptalaska.net>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-07-29T21:01:57Z
Lists: pgsql-performance 
Andrew McMillan <andrew@catalyst.net.nz> writes:
> On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 09:37 -0800, Matthew Schumacher wrote:
>> How often should this table be vacuumed, every 5 minutes?

> I would be tempted to vacuum after each e-mail, in this case.

Perhaps the bulk of the transient states should be done in a temp table,
and only write into a real table when you're done?  Dropping a temp
table is way quicker than vacuuming it ...

			regards, tom lane