[PERFORM] Is clustering possible to enhance the performance?

2003-12-01 Thread LIANHE SHAO
Hello, I am wondering if it is possible to use several machine as cluster to boost the slow queries. Is that possible? Anybody have tried that before? Initially, I was thinking to use dual CPUS instead of one. but it is not correct because pgsql is not multi-threaded. Any suggestions are

[PERFORM] For full text indexing, which is better, tsearch2 or fulltextindex

2003-11-26 Thread LIANHE SHAO
Hi all, Which one is better (performance/easier to use), tsearch2 or fulltextindex? there is an example how to use fulltextindex in the techdocs, but I checked the contrib/fulltextindex package, there is a WARNING that fulltextindex is much slower than tsearch2. but tsearch2 seems complex to

Re: [PERFORM] very large db performance question

2003-11-26 Thread LIANHE SHAO
- From: Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 10:03 pm Subject: Re: [PERFORM] very large db performance question LIANHE SHAO [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We will have a very large database to store microarray data (may exceed 80-100G some day). now we have 1G RAM, 2G Hz

[PERFORM] why index scan not working when using 'like'?

2003-11-25 Thread LIANHE SHAO
Hi all, I want to use index on the gene_symbol column in my query and gene_symbol is indexed. but when I use lower (gene_symbol) like lower('%mif%'), the index is not used. While when I change to lower(gene_symbol) = lower('mif'), the index is used and index scan works, but this is not what I