Re: [PERFORM] Query Plan - Bitmap Index Scan and Views

2006-08-04 Thread Tom Lane
Rusty Conover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Absolutely, I'll attempt to run the test against the current CVS HEAD. > Do I need to pg_dump and restore from 8.1.4? Yup, fraid so. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [PERFORM] Query Plan - Bitmap Index Scan and Views

2006-08-04 Thread Rusty Conover
On Aug 4, 2006, at 8:15 PM, Tom Lane wrote:Rusty Conover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Is there any inherent benefit of using a the IN operator versus  joining a temporary table? Should they offer near equal performance?   It appears bitmap scan's aren't done when matching across a small  temporary t

Re: [PERFORM] Query Plan - Bitmap Index Scan and Views

2006-08-04 Thread Tom Lane
Rusty Conover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any inherent benefit of using a the IN operator versus > joining a temporary table? Should they offer near equal performance? > It appears bitmap scan's aren't done when matching across a small > temporary table. I believe the problem you

[PERFORM] Query Plan - Bitmap Index Scan and Views

2006-08-04 Thread Rusty Conover
Hi, Is there any inherent benefit of using a the IN operator versus joining a temporary table? Should they offer near equal performance? It appears bitmap scan's aren't done when matching across a small temporary table. I have a temporary table with 5 integers in it that I'm matching a

Re: [PERFORM] XFS filessystem for Datawarehousing

2006-08-04 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 08:42:23PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > J. Andrew Rogers wrote: > > > > On Aug 1, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Milen Kulev wrote: > > >Is anyone using XFS for storing/retrieving relatively large amount > > >of data (~ 200GB)? > > > > > > Yes, we've been using it on Linux since

Re: [PERFORM] XFS filessystem for Datawarehousing -2

2006-08-04 Thread Denis Lussier
I agree that OCFS 2.0 is NOT a general purpose PG (or any other) solution.  My recollection is that OCFS gave about 15% performance improvements (same as setting some aggressive switches on ext3).   I assume OCFS has excellent crash safety with its default settings but we did not test this as of ye

Re: [PERFORM] RAID stripe size question

2006-08-04 Thread Mikael Carneholm
> WRT seek performance, we're doing 2500 seeks per second on the Sun/Thumper on 36 disks. Luke, Have you had time to run benchmarksql against it yet? I'm just curious about the IO seeks/s vs. transactions/minute correlation... /Mikael ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [PERFORM] Partitioning / constrain exlusion not working with %-operator

2006-08-04 Thread Martin Lesser
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's usually better to use partitioning rules that have something to > do with the WHERE-clauses you'd be using anyway. For instance, try > to partition on ranges. I agree and tried to create new partitioned tables. But now I ran into some other performance