Re: [GENERAL] PG 7.0 is 2.5 times slower running a big report

2000-05-25 Thread Bryan White
Well, when you have 2.7 million records in a database, the code might be as good as it can be. I have recoverd the performance lost when I moved to Postgres 7.0 by executing SET enable_indexscan = OFF before creating my cursors and turning it back on for the inner loop query. It may even be

Re: [GENERAL] PG 7.0 is 2.5 times slower running a big report

2000-05-25 Thread Bryan White
I have set index_scan off for tomorrow morning's run. I will let you know what happens. I think my problem is fixed. By disabling index scan while creating the cursors and then turning it back on again for the small query that occurs in my inner loop the performance has returned to normal

Re: [GENERAL] PG 7.0 is 2.5 times slower running a big report

2000-05-25 Thread Tom Lane
"Bryan White" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have recoverd the performance lost when I moved to Postgres 7.0 by executing SET enable_indexscan = OFF before creating my cursors and turning it back on for the inner loop query. It may even be faster then before so I am happy. OK, so it was the

Re: [GENERAL] PG 7.0 is 2.5 times slower running a big report

2000-05-25 Thread Bruce Momjian
"Bryan White" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have recoverd the performance lost when I moved to Postgres 7.0 by executing SET enable_indexscan = OFF before creating my cursors and turning it back on for the inner loop query. It may even be faster then before so I am happy. OK, so it was

[GENERAL] PG 7.0 is 2.5 times slower running a big report

2000-05-24 Thread Bryan White
I have a large report that I run once a day. Under 6.5.3 it took just over 3hrs to run. Under 7.0 it is now taking 8 hours to run. No other changes were made. This is on RedHat Linux 6.2. A PIII 733 with 384MB Ram, and 2 IDE 7200 RPM disks. One disk contains the Postgres directroy including

Re: [GENERAL] PG 7.0 is 2.5 times slower running a big report

2000-05-24 Thread Tom Lane
"Bryan White" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Top tells me the front end process is using 5 to 10 percent of the CPU and the back end is using 10 to 20 percent. The load average is about 1.0 and the CPU is about 80% idle. It's probably waiting for disk I/O ... What does EXPLAIN tell you about how

Re: [GENERAL] PG 7.0 is 2.5 times slower running a big report

2000-05-24 Thread Joseph Shraibman
Try putting 'nofsync' in your pg_options. Bryan White wrote: I have a large report that I run once a day. Under 6.5.3 it took just over 3hrs to run. Under 7.0 it is now taking 8 hours to run. No other changes were made. This is on RedHat Linux 6.2. A PIII 733 with 384MB Ram, and 2