Re: [HACKERS] random_page_cost vs seq_page_cost

2012-02-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 07:58:28PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: I was initially concerned that tuning advice in this part of the docs would look out of place, but now see the 25% shared_buffers recommentation, and it looks fine, so we are OK. (Should we caution against more than 8GB of shared

Re: [HACKERS] random_page_cost vs seq_page_cost

2012-02-12 Thread Greg Smith
On 02/11/2012 07:53 PM, Jeff Janes wrote: Has it ever been well-characterized what the problem is with8GB? I've used shared buffers above that size for testing purposes and could never provoke a problem with it. If anyone ever manages to characterize it well, we might actually make progress

Re: [HACKERS] random_page_cost vs seq_page_cost

2012-02-11 Thread Jeff Janes
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: On 02/07/2012 03:23 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Where did you see that there will be an improvement in the 9.2 documentation?  I don't see an improvement. I commented that I'm hoping for an improvement in the documentation

Re: [HACKERS] random_page_cost vs seq_page_cost

2012-02-11 Thread Jeff Janes
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: I was initially concerned that tuning advice in this part of the docs would look out of place, but now see the 25% shared_buffers recommentation, and it looks fine, so we are OK.  (Should we caution against more than 8GB of

Re: [HACKERS] random_page_cost vs seq_page_cost

2012-02-08 Thread Benedikt Grundmann
On 07/02/12 19:58, Bruce Momjian wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 05:06:18PM -0500, Greg Smith wrote: On 02/07/2012 03:23 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Where did you see that there will be an improvement in the 9.2 documentation? I don't see an improvement. I commented that I'm hoping for an

Re: [HACKERS] random_page_cost vs seq_page_cost

2012-02-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 08:26:52AM +, Benedikt Grundmann wrote: (replying just to you) On 10/01/12 15:22, Greg Smith wrote: On 1/5/12 5:04 AM, Benedikt Grundmann wrote: That sort of thing is one reason why all attempts so far to set random_page_cost based on physical characteristics

Re: [HACKERS] random_page_cost vs seq_page_cost

2012-02-07 Thread Greg Smith
On 02/07/2012 03:23 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Where did you see that there will be an improvement in the 9.2 documentation? I don't see an improvement. I commented that I'm hoping for an improvement in the documentation of how much timing overhead impacts attempts to measure this area better.

Re: [HACKERS] random_page_cost vs seq_page_cost

2012-02-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 05:06:18PM -0500, Greg Smith wrote: On 02/07/2012 03:23 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Where did you see that there will be an improvement in the 9.2 documentation? I don't see an improvement. I commented that I'm hoping for an improvement in the documentation of how much

Re: [HACKERS] random_page_cost vs seq_page_cost

2012-01-11 Thread Benedikt Grundmann
(replying just to you) On 10/01/12 15:22, Greg Smith wrote: On 1/5/12 5:04 AM, Benedikt Grundmann wrote: That sort of thing is one reason why all attempts so far to set random_page_cost based on physical characteristics haven't gone anywhere useful. The setting is sort of overloaded right

Re: [HACKERS] random_page_cost vs seq_page_cost

2012-01-11 Thread Benedikt Grundmann
On 11/01/12 08:26, Benedikt Grundmann wrote: (replying just to you) Clearly I didn't. Sigh. Getting myself a coffee now. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] random_page_cost vs seq_page_cost

2012-01-10 Thread Greg Smith
On 1/5/12 5:04 AM, Benedikt Grundmann wrote: I have a question of how to benchmark hardware to determine the appropriate ratio of seq_page_cost vs random_page_cost. Emails in this mailing lists archive seem to indicate that 1.0 vs 3.0 - 4.0 are appropriate values on modern hardware. Which

Re: [HACKERS] random_page_cost vs seq_page_cost

2012-01-09 Thread Benedikt Grundmann
On 07/01/12 23:01, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On tor, 2012-01-05 at 10:04 +, Benedikt Grundmann wrote: We have recently upgrade two of our biggest postgres databases to new hardware and minor version number bump (8.4.5 - 8.4.9). We are experiencing a big performance regression in some

Re: [HACKERS] random_page_cost vs seq_page_cost

2012-01-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tor, 2012-01-05 at 10:04 +, Benedikt Grundmann wrote: We have recently upgrade two of our biggest postgres databases to new hardware and minor version number bump (8.4.5 - 8.4.9). We are experiencing a big performance regression in some queries. In those cases the planner seems to

Re: [HACKERS] random_page_cost vs seq_page_cost

2012-01-05 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Benedikt Grundmann bgrundm...@janestreet.com wrote: We are experiencing a big performance regression in some queries. In those cases the planner seems to choose a nested loop index scan instead of hashing the index once and then joining. I think you probably

Re: [HACKERS] random_page_cost vs seq_page_cost

2012-01-05 Thread Benedikt Grundmann
On 05/01/12 10:04, Benedikt Grundmann wrote: As a counter measure we are experimenting with enable_nestloop = off random_page_cost = 20 (instead of the previous 4). For what it is worth we had to revert the enable_nestloop = off change. It just moved the pain around by making other

Re: [HACKERS] random_page_cost vs seq_page_cost

2012-01-05 Thread Jeremy Harris
On 2012-01-05 10:04, Benedikt Grundmann wrote: I have a question of how to benchmark hardware to determine the appropriate ratio of seq_page_cost vs random_page_cost. It'd be really nice if the DBMS measured actual experienced values.. -- Jeremy -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list

Re: [HACKERS] random_page_cost vs seq_page_cost

2012-01-05 Thread Josh Berkus
On 1/5/12 3:00 PM, Jeremy Harris wrote: On 2012-01-05 10:04, Benedikt Grundmann wrote: I have a question of how to benchmark hardware to determine the appropriate ratio of seq_page_cost vs random_page_cost. It'd be really nice if the DBMS measured actual experienced values.. Certainly