Re: [HACKERS] Heh, the disappearing problem!

> I've seen this same kind of behavior in a few other places as well; in
> places where you are doing reads and writes in a mixed environment (ie: read
> something, write something (typically in a different table) based on what 
> you read) performance of 6.3 has gone in the toilet.  Update jobs that used 
> to run in tens of seconds are requiring several minutes to complete now.
> 
> And again, we're not seeing much disk I/O during this period - but we *ARE*
> seeing a hell of a lot of CPU activity, almost all in user mode.

OK, how about using postgres -t option or profiling to get the function
using so much cpu?  This may help us tell where the problem lies.  Does
anyone else see such problems?  All other reports I hear was that 6.3
was faster.

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