[PERFORM] variable length - user defined types/storage place

2004-07-25 Thread martin . bokler
Hi all, in a large table (millions of rows) I am using a variable-length user defined type to store relatively short field entries, i.e. the length of certain fields could be restricted to 2^16 or even 2^8 characters. Now I wonder whether it would be possible to save storage place, by using

Re: [PERFORM] Working on huge RAM based datasets

2004-07-25 Thread Andy Ballingall
Sorry for the late reply - I've been away. Merlin, I'd like to come back with a few more points! That's the whole point: memory is a limited resource. If pg is crawling, then the problem is simple: you need more memory. My posting only relates to the scenario where RAM is not a limiting

[PERFORM] Index type

2004-07-25 Thread Ilia Kantor
Hello, I have a request like SELECT ... WHERE x=A=y AND t=B=u AND z=C=w AND .. 5 columns are in BETWEEN clauses. What is the best index I could use? If I create btree index on all columns (A,B,C..), here is what explain analyze gives me:

[PERFORM] arrays and indexes

2004-07-25 Thread Ross J. Reedstrom
Hi all - I've got a schema I'm working on modifying, nad I need some help getting the best performance out. The orginal schema has a many to many linkage between a couple tables, using a two column linkage table. This is used to represent groups of people and their relationship to an object