Re: [PERFORM] Some very weird behaviour....

2003-07-09 Thread Rod Taylor
> To give you some perspective on the size of the dataset and the > performance level we are hitting, here are some "good" results based on > some explains: Before Tom jumps in taking all the fun out of trying to solve it... The estimates in the slow queries seem perfectly reasonable. In fact,

[PERFORM] Some very weird behaviour....

2003-07-09 Thread Chris Bowlby
Hi All, I'm sure some of you know me from previous questions on other lists, but this one has myself and Marc completely stumped. We've got a database that has about 89 Million rows, under PostgreSQL 7.3.3 on a dual PIII 1.2 with 4 GBytes of RAM on a 5 disk RAID 5 array. The dataset itself is ab