Re: [PERFORM] Index on two columns not used

2006-10-21 Thread Péter Kovács
Sorry for the amateurish question, but what are heap tuples? Also, my understanding is that the following statement applies only for composite indexes: PostgreSQL can't use the values stored in the index to check the join condition. I assume that PostgreSQL will be able to use

Re: [PERFORM] pgBench on Windows

2006-10-21 Thread Magnus Hagander
Hello Performancers, has anyone a pgBench tool running on Windows? Does the one that ships in the installer not work? //Magnus ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ?

Re: [PERFORM] Is ODBC that slow?

2006-10-21 Thread Carlo Stonebanks
carlo: please, please, get your mail server to quit telling me your mailbox is full :) Merlin, sorry about that. This is the first I've heard of it. Carlo ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

[PERFORM] Optimizing disk throughput on quad Opteron

2006-10-21 Thread John Philips
Hello, I'm working out specs for a new database server to be purchased for our organization. The applications the server will handle are mainly related to network operations (monitoring, logging, statistical/trend reports, etc.). Disk I/O will be especially high with relation to processing

Re: [PERFORM] Is ODBC that slow?

2006-10-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Yeah, but they had to back-off from that plan, and AFAIK it only uses libpq for the auth stuff and then switch to dealing with the protocol directly. I don't know what the reasoning was though :-) I guess Joshua would know. I'm not involved in that project. I only know that recently a

Re: [PERFORM] Optimizing disk throughput on quad Opteron

2006-10-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I heard some say that the transaction log should be on it's own array, others say it doesn't hurt to have it on the same array as the OS. Is it really worthwhile to put it on it's own array? Can you guys see any glaring bottlenecks in my layout? Any other suggestions to offer (throw in

Re: [PERFORM] Optimizing disk throughput on quad Opteron

2006-10-21 Thread Ben Suffolk
You can find a diagram of my initial spec here: http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/9171/dbserverdiagramuc3.jpg Can you guys see any glaring bottlenecks in my layout? Any other suggestions to offer (throw in more controllers, different RAID layout, etc.)? Our budget limit is $50k. The thing I