Re: [PERFORM] pg_dump performance?

2004-08-05 Thread Jesper Krogh
I gmane.comp.db.postgresql.performance, skrev Christopher Kings-Lynne: > Is it the dump or the restore that's really slow? Primarily the dump, it seems to be CPU-bound on the postmaster' process. No signs on IO-bottleneck when I try to monitor with iostat or vmstat -- ./Jesper Krogh, [EMAIL P

Re: [PERFORM] pg_dump performance?

2004-08-05 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Is it the dump or the restore that's really slow? Chris Jesper Krogh wrote: I have a database that I should migrate from 7.3 -> 7.4.3 but pg_dump | psql seems to take forever. (Several hours) Is there anything that can I do to speed it up? The databse is primary a table with 300.000 records of ab

[PERFORM] pg_dump performance?

2004-08-05 Thread Jesper Krogh
I have a database that I should migrate from 7.3 -> 7.4.3 but pg_dump | psql seems to take forever. (Several hours) Is there anything that can I do to speed it up? The databse is primary a table with 300.000 records of about 200Kbytes each. ~ 60 GB. This is becoming an issue with the daily back

Re: [PERFORM] my boss want to migrate to ORACLE

2004-08-05 Thread Mischa Sandberg
Regarding Raid5 at all, you might want to look at http://www.baarf.com ""Stephane Tessier"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I think with your help guys I'll do it! > > I'm working on it! > > I'll work on theses issues: > > we have space for more ram(we use 2 gigs on p

Re: [PERFORM] Temporary tables

2004-08-05 Thread Gaetano Mendola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G u i d o B a r o s i o wrote: | The box: | Linux 2.4.24-ck1 | 8 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 2.80GHz | 4 gb RAM. | Postgresql 7.4.2 | | The problem: | Short in disk space. (waiting new hard) | | The real problem: | Developers usually write queries involvi

Re: [PERFORM] Performance Bottleneck

2004-08-05 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 08:40:35AM +0200, Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud wrote: > Apache processes running for 30 minutes ?. > > My advice : use frames and Javascript ! My advice: Stay out of frames and Javascript if you can avoid it. The first is severely outdated technology, and the o

[PERFORM] Temporary tables

2004-08-05 Thread G u i d o B a r o s i o
The box: Linux 2.4.24-ck1 8 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) MP CPU 2.80GHz 4 gb RAM. Postgresql 7.4.2 The problem: Short in disk space. (waiting new hard) The real problem: Developers usually write queries involving the creation of temporary tables. The BF question: Is a good idea to link this tmp tables

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Tuning queries on large database

2004-08-05 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I am guessing that Oracle can satisfy Q4 entirely via index access, whereas Pg has to visit the table as well. Having said that, a few partial indexes may be worth trying out on data.num_poste (say 10 or so), this won't help the table access but could lower the index cost. If you combine this w

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Tuning queries on large database

2004-08-05 Thread Valerie Schneider DSI/DEV
Hi, I 've decreased the sort_mem to 5000 instead of 5. I recreated ma table using integer and real types instead of numeric : the result is very improved for the disk space : schema | relfilenode | table | index| reltuples | size +-+