Re: [PERFORM] ok you all win what is best opteron (I dont want a hosed system again)

2005-05-14 Thread Mike Nolan
> This can often be called for. I'm working on a 400GB data warehouse right > now, and almost *all* of our queries run from materialized aggregate tables. I thought that was pretty much the definition of data warehousing! :-) -- Mike Nolan ---(end o

Re: [PERFORM] Sustained inserts per sec ... ?

2005-04-01 Thread Mike Nolan
, which is about 4200 transactions/second. -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [PERFORM] Sustained inserts per sec ... ?

2005-04-01 Thread Mike Nolan
tement instead of COPY. The hardware is a Dell dual Xeon system, the disks are mirrored SATA drives with write buffering turned off. -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [PERFORM] Trigger & Function

2004-06-01 Thread Mike Nolan
at match the structure of the tables they are logging. 2. Write a trigger function that converts columns to something you can store in a common log table. (I've not found a way to do this without inserting one row for each column being logged, though.) -- Mike Nolan ---

Re: [PERFORM] Long running queries degrade performance

2004-04-16 Thread Mike Nolan
le-clicks even when they only want one click. -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match

Re: [PERFORM] Long running queries degrade performance

2004-04-16 Thread Mike Nolan
production server. The same query a while later might respond quickly again. I'm not sure where to look for the delay, either, and it is intermittent enough that I'm not even sure what monitoring techniques to use. -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL and Linux 2.6 kernel.

2004-04-03 Thread Mike Nolan
ammers working on tuning issues for SQL Server than PostgreSQL has working on the whole project. -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PERFORM] Fixed width rows faster?

2004-03-06 Thread Mike Nolan
> Mike Nolan wrote: > > Is there a way to copy a table INCLUDING the check constraints? If not, > > then that information is lost, unlike varchar(n). > > "pg_dump -t" should work fine, unless I'm misunderstanding you. I was specifically referring to doing

Re: [PERFORM] Fixed width rows faster?

2004-03-06 Thread Mike Nolan
> Actually, I don't. Good reason to have a check constraint on it though > (hint, check constraints can be changed while column types cannot be, at > this moment). Is there a way to copy a table INCLUDING the check constraints? If not, then that information is lost, unlike varch

Re: [PERFORM] Fixed width rows faster?

2004-03-05 Thread Mike Nolan
rk as specified, I don't think the standard cares much about what's happening behind the curtain. -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [PERFORM] Fixed width rows faster?

2004-03-05 Thread Mike Nolan
> Frankly, the only reason to use anything other than TEXT is compatibility with > other databases and applications. You don't consider a requirement that a field be no longer than a certain length a reason not to use TEXT? -- Mike Nolan ---(end o

Re: [PERFORM] [pgsql-advocacy] MySQL+InnoDB vs. PostgreSQL test?

2004-02-04 Thread Mike Nolan
when you've done your homework". Can they call you at the unemployment office? -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so

Re: [PERFORM] What's faster?

2003-12-26 Thread Mike Nolan
build indexes on a regular basis, even if you move that field into a separate table. -- Mike Nolan ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings