[PERFORM] Partial index usage

2009-02-16 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Hi All, I have these indexes on a table: CREATE INDEX uidx_product_partno_producer_id ON product USING btree (partno, producer_id); CREATE INDEX idx_product_partno ON product USING btree (partno); Can I safely delete the second one? Will postgresql use (partno,producer_id) when it

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-16 Thread Gregory Stark
Arjen van der Meijden acmmail...@tweakers.net writes: When we purchased our Perc 5/e with MD1000 filled with 15 15k rpm sas disks, my colleague actually spend some time benchmarking the PERC and a ICP Vortex (basically a overclocked Adaptec) on those drives. Unfortunately he doesn't have

Re: [PERFORM] I/O increase after upgrading to 8.3.5

2009-02-16 Thread Alexander Staubo
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Greg Smith gsm...@gregsmith.com wrote: http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/chkp-bgw-83.htm goes over this topic, with Appendix B: pg_stat_bgwriter sample analysis covering a look at what to do based on a pg_stat_bgwriter snapshot. Wonderful, thank

Re: [PERFORM] Partial index usage

2009-02-16 Thread Craig Ringer
Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi All, I have these indexes on a table: CREATE INDEX uidx_product_partno_producer_id ON product USING btree (partno, producer_id); CREATE INDEX idx_product_partno ON product USING btree (partno); Can I safely delete the second one? You can safely

Re: [PERFORM] suggestions for postgresql setup on Dell 2950 , PERC6i controller

2009-02-16 Thread Rajesh Kumar Mallah
BTW our Machine got build with 8 15k drives in raid10 , from bonnie++ results its looks like the machine is able to do 400 Mbytes/s seq write and 550 Mbytes/s read. the BB cache is enabled with 256MB sda6 -- xfs with default formatting options. sda7 -- mkfs.xfs -f -d sunit=128,swidth=512

[PERFORM] TCP network cost

2009-02-16 Thread Ross J. Reedstrom
Recently I've been working on improving the performance of a system that delivers files stored in postgresql as bytea data. I was surprised at just how much a penalty I find moving from a domain socket connection to a TCP connection, even localhost. For one particular 40MB file (nothing outragous)

Re: [PERFORM] TCP network cost

2009-02-16 Thread Rusty Conover
On Feb 17, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote: Recently I've been working on improving the performance of a system that delivers files stored in postgresql as bytea data. I was surprised at just how much a penalty I find moving from a domain socket connection to a TCP connection,

Re: [PERFORM] TCP network cost

2009-02-16 Thread david
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Rusty Conover wrote: On Feb 17, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote: Recently I've been working on improving the performance of a system that delivers files stored in postgresql as bytea data. I was surprised at just how much a penalty I find moving from a domain