Re: Why queries takes too much time to execute?

Anderson Boechat Lopes wrote:
>     Hi.
>  
>     I´m new here and i´m not sure if this is the right email to solve my 
> problem.
>  
>     Well, i have a very large database, with vary tables and very 
> registers. Every day, too many operations are perfomed in that DB, with 
> queries that insert, delete and update. Once a week some statistics are 
> collected using vacuum analyze.

i guess you need to run it much more frequently than that. Thought you haven't 
given actual size of data etc., once or twice per day should be much better.
>    
>     The problem is after a period of time (one month, i think), the 
> queries takes too much time to perform. A simple update can take 10 
> seconds or more to perform.

You need to vacuum full once in a while and setup FSM parameters correctly.
>  
>     If i make a backup, drop and recreate the DB, everything goes back 
> normal.
>  
>     Could anyone give me any guidance?

Check following for basic performance tuning

http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/Tidbits/perf.html
http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/Tidbits/annotated_conf_e.html

HTH

  Shridhar