Re: [PERFORM] Should Oracle outperform PostgreSQL on a complex

2005-12-18 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:02 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Yeah - the quoted method of make a cartesian product of the dimensions and then join to the fact all at once is not actually used (as written) in many implementations But it is used in some, which is why I mentioned it. I gave two

Re: [PERFORM] Should Oracle outperform PostgreSQL on a complex

2005-12-18 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 13:13 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 23:28 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: How are star joins different from what we do now? Methods: 1. join all N small tables together in a cartesian product, then join to main

[PERFORM] PostgreSQL and Ultrasparc T1

2005-12-18 Thread Juan Casero
Hi - Can anyone tell me how well PostgreSQL 8.x performs on the new Sun Ultrasparc T1 processor and architecture on Solaris 10? I have a custom built retail sales reporting that I developed using PostgreSQL 7.48 and PHP on a Fedora Core 3 intel box. I want to scale this application upwards to

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL and Ultrasparc T1

2005-12-18 Thread Christopher Petrilli
On 12/18/05, Juan Casero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me how well PostgreSQL 8.x performs on the new Sun Ultrasparc T1 processor and architecture on Solaris 10? I have a custom built retail sales reporting that I developed using PostgreSQL 7.48 and PHP on a Fedora Core 3 intel

Re: [PERFORM] Should Oracle outperform PostgreSQL on a complex

2005-12-18 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Simon Riggs wrote: On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 17:07 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Tom Lane wrote: 2. transform joins into subselects, then return subselect rows via an index bitmap. Joins are performed via a bitmap addition process. Looks like 8.1 pretty much does this right now: Good

Re: [PERFORM] Should Oracle outperform PostgreSQL on a complex

2005-12-18 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Simon Riggs wrote: On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:02 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Yeah - the quoted method of make a cartesian product of the dimensions and then join to the fact all at once is not actually used (as written) in many implementations But it is used in some, which is why I

Re: [PERFORM] Should Oracle outperform PostgreSQL on a complex

2005-12-18 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Simon Riggs wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 13:13 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 23:28 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: How are star joins different from what we do now? Methods: 1. join all N small tables together in a cartesian product, then

Re: [PERFORM] Should Oracle outperform PostgreSQL on a complex

2005-12-18 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 11:10 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I found these two papers whilst browsing: http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs227/Papers/Indexing/O'NeilGraefe.pdf http://www.dama.upc.edu/downloads/jaguilar-2005-4.pdf They seem to be describing a more subtle method making use of

Re: [PERFORM] Should Oracle outperform PostgreSQL on a complex

2005-12-18 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 11:13 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote: My understanding: Teradata and DB2 use this. FWIW - I think DB2 uses the successive fact RID buildup (i.e method 2), unfortunately I think you're right; I was thinking about that point too because DB2 doesn't have index-organised

Re: [PERFORM] make bulk deletes faster?

2005-12-18 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 09:10:40PM -0800, James Klo wrote: I'd like some suggestions on how to get the deletes to happen faster, as while deleting individually appears to extremely fast, when I go to delete lots of rows the operation takes an extremely long time to complete (5000 rows takes

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL and Ultrasparc T1

2005-12-18 Thread Scott Marlowe
Title: RE: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL and Ultrasparc T1 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Juan Casero QUOTE: Hi - Can anyone tell me how well PostgreSQL 8.x performs on the new Sun Ultrasparc T1 processor and architecture on Solaris 10? I have a custom built retail sales reporting that I

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL and Ultrasparc T1

2005-12-18 Thread Luke Lonergan
Juan, On 12/18/05 8:35 AM, Juan Casero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me how well PostgreSQL 8.x performs on the new Sun Ultrasparc T1 processor and architecture on Solaris 10? I have a custom built retail sales reporting that I developed using PostgreSQL 7.48 and PHP on a Fedora