Re: [PERFORM] Reading data in bulk - help?

2003-09-10 Thread Chris Huston
On Wednesday, Sep 10, 2003, at 11:16 America/Denver, Josh Berkus wrote: What about explaining your disk setup? Or mentioning postgresql.conf? For somebody who wants help, you're ignoring a lot of advice and questions. Personally, I'm not going to be of any further help until you report back

Re: [PERFORM] Reading data in bulk - help?

2003-09-10 Thread Chris Huston
Thanks Josh that helped. I had gone looking for some kind of cluster option but was looking under create database, create index and initlocation - didn't see the CLUSTER index ON table. I ran the CLUSTER which took about 2 1/2 hours to complete. That improved the query performance about 6x - wh

[PERFORM] Reading data in bulk - help?

2003-09-09 Thread Chris Huston
I've got an application that needs to chunk through ~2GB of data. The data is ~7000 different sets of 300 records each. I put all of the data into a postgres database but that doesn't look like its going to work because of how the data lives on the disk. When the app runs on a 500 Mhz G4 the CP