[PERFORM] Joining views disables indexes?

2005-11-01 Thread Mitch Pirtle
I have a client that is testing an internal data platform, and they were happy with PostgreSQL until they tried to join views - at that time they discovered PostgreSQL was not using the indexes, and the queries took 24 hours to execute as a result. Is this a known issue, or is this possibly a

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL is extremely slow on Windows

2005-02-22 Thread Mitch Pirtle
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:00:59 +0100, Vig, Sandor (G/FI-2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've downloaded the latest release (PostgreSQL 8.0) for windows. Installation was OK, but I have tried to restore a database. It had more than ~100.000 records. Usually I use PostgreSQL under Linux,

Re: [PERFORM] PG versus FreeBSD, startup and connections problems

2005-01-26 Thread Mitch Pirtle
Just a quick shout-out to Mark, as you provided the winning answer. I found numerous mailing list discussions and web pages, but all were either fragmented or out of date. Again, many thanks! -- Mitch On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:08:58 +1300, Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in

[PERFORM] PG versus FreeBSD, startup and connections problems

2005-01-25 Thread Mitch Pirtle
Hi gang, I just inherited a FreeBSD box, and it is horribly sick. So we moved everything to a new machine (power supply failures) and finally got stuff running again. Ok, for two days (rimshot) Here are the two problems, and for the life of me I cannot find any documentation on either: 1)

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

2005-01-20 Thread Mitch Pirtle
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:33:42 -0800, Darcy Buskermolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another Option to consider would be pgmemcache. that way you just build the farm out of lots of large memory, diskless boxes for keeping the whole database in memory in the whole cluster. More information on it

Re: [PERFORM] Hardware purchase question

2005-01-03 Thread Mitch Pirtle
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:23:13 -0800, Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RAID 10 will typically always outperform RAID 5 with the same HD config. Isn't RAID10 just RAID5 mirrored? How does that speed up performance? Or am I missing something? -- Mitch ---(end of

Re: [PERFORM] Hardware purchase question

2005-01-03 Thread Mitch Pirtle
You are right, I now remember that setup was originally called RAID 10 plus 1, and I believe is was an incorrect statement from an overzealous salesman ;-) Thanks for the clarification! - Mitch On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:19:04 -0500, Madison Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Madison Kelly wrote:

Re: [PERFORM] Caching of Queries

2004-09-27 Thread Mitch Pirtle
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:20:48 +0100, Matt Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very true. Client side caching is an enormous win for apps, but it requires quite a lot of logic, triggers to update last-modified fields on relevant tables, etc etc. Moving some of this logic to the DB would