Re: [PERFORM] Bad Row Count Estimate on View with 8.2

2007-01-28 Thread Dave Dutcher
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Lane In fact, since there isn't any parent relation in a UNION, I'm not sure that this patch actually changed your results ... but I'm not seeing what else would've ... Thanks for looking into it. I thought I might

Re: [PERFORM] Bad Row Count Estimate on View with 8.2

2007-01-28 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Dutcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for looking into it. I thought I might actually test if it was the patch you mentioned which changed my results, but I haven't had time. Because you mentioned it was grouping on the results of a UNION ALL which was throwing off the row estimate I

[PERFORM] work-mem

2007-01-28 Thread Campbell, Lance
I have been researching how to improve my overall performance of postgres. I am a little confused on the reasoning for how work-mem is used in the postgresql.conf file. The way I understand the documentation is you define with work-mem how much memory you want to allocate per search. Couldn't

Re: [PERFORM] work-mem

2007-01-28 Thread imad
work-mem tells the size of physical memory only, virtual memory is always there off course in case you run out of available memory. I recommend you reading PostgreSQL internals for all this stuff: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/internals.html --Imad www.EnterpriseDB.com On 1/29/07,

Re: [PERFORM] work_mem

2007-01-28 Thread Bill Moran
Campbell, Lance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been researching how to improve my overall performance of postgres. I am a little confused on the reasoning for how work_mem is used in the postgresql.conf file. The way I understand the documentation is you define with work_mem how much

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning

2007-01-28 Thread Josh Berkus
John, -work_mem Depends on the number of concurrent queries you expect to run and what size sorts you expect them to do. -maintenance_work_mem - 50% of the largest table? Actually, in current code I've found that anything over 256mb doesn't actually get used. -shared_buffers - max value

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning

2007-01-28 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus josh@agliodbs.com writes: -checkpoint_segments - this is crucial as one of the server is transaction heavy Well, it only helps you to raise this if you have a dedicated disk resource for the xlog. Otherwise having more segments doesn't help you much. Au contraire, large

[PERFORM] work-mem how do I identify the proper size

2007-01-28 Thread Campbell, Lance
If I set work-mem at a particular amount of memory how do I answer the following questions: 1) How many of my queries were able to run inside the memory I allocated for work-mem? 2) How many of my queries had to run from disk because work-mem was not set high enough? 3) If