Re: [PERFORM] Quick Performance Poll

2006-04-20 Thread Milen Kulev
Luke > Lonergan > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 5:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Simon Dale; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Quick Performance Poll > > > Jim, > > On 4/20/06 7:40 AM, "Jim Buttafuoco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: [PERFORM] Quick Performance Poll

2006-04-20 Thread Luke Lonergan
n > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 5:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Simon Dale; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Quick Performance Poll > > > Jim, > > On 4/20/06 7:40 AM, "Jim Buttafuoco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> First of all

Re: [PERFORM] Quick Performance Poll

2006-04-20 Thread Milen Kulev
20, 2006 5:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Simon Dale; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Quick Performance Poll Jim, On 4/20/06 7:40 AM, "Jim Buttafuoco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all this is NOT a single table and yes I am using > part

Re: [PERFORM] Quick Performance Poll

2006-04-20 Thread Jim C. Nasby
Interested in doing a case study for the website? On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:36:25AM -0400, Jim Buttafuoco wrote: > > Simon, > > I have many databases over 1T with the largest being ~6T. All of my > databases store telecom data, such as call detail > records. The access is very fast when look

Re: [PERFORM] Quick Performance Poll

2006-04-20 Thread Luke Lonergan
Markus, On 4/20/06 8:11 AM, "Markus Schaber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are they capable to index custom datatypes like the PostGIS geometries > that use the GIST mechanism? This could probably speed up our Geo > Databases for Map rendering, containing static data that is updated > approx. 2 ti

Re: [PERFORM] Quick Performance Poll

2006-04-20 Thread Markus Schaber
Hi, Luke, Luke Lonergan wrote: > The current drawback to bitmap index is that it isn't very maintainable > under insert/update, although it is safe for those operations. For now, you > have to drop index, do inserts/updates, rebuild index. So they effectively turn the table into a read-only tab

Re: [PERFORM] Quick Performance Poll

2006-04-20 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Sent: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:03:10 -0700 Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Quick Performance Poll > Jim, > > On 4/20/06 7:40 AM, "Jim Buttafuoco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > First of all this is NOT a single tab

Re: [PERFORM] Quick Performance Poll

2006-04-20 Thread Luke Lonergan
Jim, On 4/20/06 7:40 AM, "Jim Buttafuoco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all this is NOT a single table and yes I am using partitioning and > the constaint exclusion stuff. the largest > set of tables is over 2T. I have not had to rebuild the biggest database yet, > but for a smaller one

Re: [PERFORM] Quick Performance Poll

2006-04-20 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
and small tables Jim -- Original Message --- From: "Luke Lonergan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Simon Dale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Sent: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:31:33 -0700 Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Quick Pe

Re: [PERFORM] Quick Performance Poll

2006-04-20 Thread Luke Lonergan
Jim, On 4/20/06 6:36 AM, "Jim Buttafuoco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The access is very fast when looking for a small subset of the data. I guess you are not using indexes because building a (non bitmap) index on 6TB on a single machine would take days if not weeks. So if you are using table

Re: [PERFORM] Quick Performance Poll

2006-04-20 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
memory. SCSI is out of our price range, but if I had unlimited $ I would go with SCSI /SCSI raid instead. Jim -- Original Message --- From: "Simon Dale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:18:58 +0100 Subject: [PERFORM] Quick Performance Poll >

[PERFORM] Quick Performance Poll

2006-04-20 Thread Simon Dale
Hi,   I was just wondering whether anyone has had success with storing more than 1TB of data with PostgreSQL and how they have found the performance.   We need a database that can store in excess of this amount and still show good performance. We will probably be implementing several ta