[PERFORM] strange index performance?

2009-01-24 Thread Thomas Finneid
Hi I just experienced a performance loss on inserts when redefining my index on a table. I have a database with the following table table: id1 int id2 int id3 int id4 int val1 float tablespace dbspace the data id distribution is hierarchical and even, well

Re: [PERFORM] strange index performance?

2009-01-24 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Thomas Finneid tfinn...@fcon.no wrote: Hi I just experienced a performance loss on inserts when redefining my index on a table. I have a database with the following table table: id1 int id2 int id3 int id4 int val1 float

Re: [PERFORM] strange index performance?

2009-01-24 Thread Scott Marlowe
Also, what other kind of usage patterns are going on. I wrote a simple test case for this and on a table with 100,000 entries already in it, then inserting 10,000 in a transaction and 10,000 outside of a transaction, I get insert rates of 0.1 ms and 0.5 ms respectively. With a table with

Re: [PERFORM] tablespace for tranaction log?

2009-01-24 Thread Euler Taveira de Oliveira
Thomas Finneid escreveu: But my question is, since I can do this with tablespace for tables, indexes and so on, is there any possibilites to do a similar thing for the transaction log from inside postgres? as in No. Because transaction log is for the entire cluster and it is too risky to do

Re: [PERFORM] SSD performance

2009-01-24 Thread Greg Smith
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, da...@lang.hm wrote: take a look at this ram based drive, specificly look at the numbers here http://techreport.com/articles.x/16255/9 they are about as much above the X25-e as the X25-e is above normal drives. They're so close to having a killer product with that one.

Re: [PERFORM] SSD performance

2009-01-24 Thread david
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Greg Smith wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, da...@lang.hm wrote: take a look at this ram based drive, specificly look at the numbers here http://techreport.com/articles.x/16255/9 they are about as much above the X25-e as the X25-e is above normal drives. They're so close to

Re: [PERFORM] strange index performance?

2009-01-24 Thread Thomas Finneid
Scott Marlowe wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Thomas Finneid tfinn...@fcon.no wrote: Is this table constantly growing, or is it at a stable plateu? I'd assume a constantly growing table, or one with bloat problems would get slower over time. About how many rows does this table have?