Re: [PERFORM] Variable versus constrant size tuples

2011-08-22 Thread Krzysztof Chodak
Thank you. Now I see that page consists of record pointers list build from offset and length so there is no benefit of having constant length here. On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 17:03, Merlin Moncure mmonc...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Krzysztof Chodak

Re: [PERFORM] tunning strategy needed

2011-08-22 Thread hyelluas
thank you, it is a great article. the current on 8.1 checkpoint_segments = 3. it looks too low for me , but I'm not tuning the 8.1 schema. I'm looking for a generic approach of improving that beast while moving it to 8.4 I'm trying to understand the internals for Views vs. Functions there

Re: [PERFORM] settings input for upgrade

2011-08-22 Thread Midge Brown
Thank you. I'll set work_mem back to 16MB and see what happens from there. -Midge - Original Message - From: Scott Marlowe To: Midge Brown Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [PERFORM] settings input for upgrade On

Re: [PERFORM] settings input for upgrade

2011-08-22 Thread Midge Brown
Thank you so much for the input, and the detail provided. I'll be making the configuration changes, probably over the course of the week, checking the affect after each (as reminded by Scott Marlowe). I was pushed to put the new version into production over the weekend, which at least may

Re: [PERFORM] settings input for upgrade

2011-08-22 Thread Greg Smith
On 08/22/2011 12:48 PM, Midge Brown wrote: I was pushed to put the new version into production over the weekend, which at least may provide me with some accurate feedback, and so will see what happens for a bit before addressing the disk/drive layout. The good news is that deploying onto the

[PERFORM] RAID Controllers

2011-08-22 Thread David Boreham
I'm buying a bunch of new machines (all will run an application that heavily writes to PG). These machines will have 2 spindle groups in a RAID-1 config. Drives will be either 15K SAS, or 10K SATA (I haven't decided if it is better to buy the faster drives, or drives that are identical to the

[PERFORM] 8.4 optimization regression?

2011-08-22 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I am in the progress of an 8.3 to 8.4 upgrade for a customer. I seem to have stumbled upon what looks like a regression. The two databases (8.3.14 and 8.4.8) have identical tuning parameters (where that makes sense) and run on identical hardware. Both databases are regularly vacuumed and

Re: [PERFORM] RAID Controllers

2011-08-22 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 8:42 PM, David Boreham david_l...@boreham.org wrote: I'm buying a bunch of new machines (all will run an application that heavily writes to PG). These machines will have 2 spindle groups in a RAID-1 config. Drives will be either 15K SAS, or 10K SATA (I haven't decided