Re: [PERFORM] Data Warehouse Reevaluation - MySQL vs Postgres --

2004-09-14 Thread Iain
depending on the type of data > involved, and queries are normally date qualified. That sounds interesting. I have to admit that I havn't touched iheritance in pg at all yet so I find it hard to imagine how this would work. If you have a chance, would you mind elaborating on i

Re: [PERFORM] Data Warehouse Reevaluation - MySQL vs Postgres --

2004-09-15 Thread Iain
derived from a parent table makes a lot of sense. regards Iain - Original Message - From: "Joe Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Iain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [PERFORM]

Re: [PERFORM] Data Warehouse Reevaluation - MySQL vs Postgres --

2004-09-16 Thread Iain
that you could still do all that that if you wanted to, by building the predicated view with UNION ALL of each of the child tables. regards Iain - Original Message - From: "Joe Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Christopher Browne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EM

Re: [PERFORM] Performance vs Schemas

2004-10-14 Thread Iain
have experienced the same speedup as the data tables would be more compact.   regards Iain - Original Message - From: Igor Maciel Macaubas To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 3:38 AM Subject: [PERFORM] Performance vs Schemas Hi all,   I rec

Re: [PERFORM] Caching of Queries

2004-09-27 Thread Iain
or even better to disable caching of any sql not using binds. I don't think even the mighty Oracle has that option. As you may have guessed, my vote is for implementing a query cache that includes plans. I have no specific preference as to data caching. It doesn't seem to be so important

Re: [PERFORM] Caching of Queries

2004-09-27 Thread Iain
;s what I plan to (Bdo with future PG/Oracle/Hypersonic (my 3 favourite DBMSs) application (Bdevelopment anyway. (B (BRegards (BIain (B (B (B- Original Message - (BFrom: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (BTo: "Iain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (BCc: &q

Re: [PERFORM] can't handle large number of INSERT/UPDATEs

2004-10-26 Thread Iain
Turbo linux 7 sems to be agreeing with Curtis, (B (Bbi: $B%V%m%C%/%G%P%$%9$KAw$i$l$?%V%m%C%/(B (blocks/s)$B!#(B (Bbo: $B%V%m%C%/%G%P%$%9$+$i (B (BSorry it's in Japanese but bi says "blocks sent to block device" and bo is (B"blocks received from block device". (B (BI don't know that mu

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql amd-64

2004-11-07 Thread Iain
mber what they call it offhand. If anyone has opinions about that, I'd be happy to hear. regards Iain - Original Message - From: "Daniel Ceregatti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Merlin Moncure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturd

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql amd-64

2004-11-07 Thread Iain
Hi Andrew, (B (BI had never heard of Ubuntu before, thanks for the tip. (B (Bregards (Biain (B- Original Message - (BFrom: "Andrew McMillan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (BTo: "Iain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (BSent: Monday, November 08, 2004 12:51 PM (BSubject:

Re: [PERFORM] FW: Index usage

2004-11-30 Thread Iain
hich won't be amenable to useful comparative searching (I didn't read any of the earlier posts so if that isn't the case, just ignore this). If this is the case, try storing the data in a date column and see what happens then. regards Iain test=# explain analyse select * from bigta

Re: [PERFORM] FW: Index usage

2004-11-30 Thread Iain
conversion but if it is, I'd expect it to use a -MM-DD format which is what I see here. Something like ... WHERE date>= to_date('11/03/04','DD/MM/YY') regards Iain - Original Message - From: "BBI Edwin Punzalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: &qu

Re: [PERFORM] Alternatives to Dell?

2004-12-01 Thread Iain
I always say 'If you pay for quality it only hurts once', but then again I don't equate high price with high quality ;-) - Original Message - From: "Geoffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Something to be said for the old saying, 'you get what you pay for.' ---(end of bro

Re: [PERFORM] Normalization or Performance

2004-12-02 Thread Iain
Hi, (B (Bwithout knowing much about your system, it seems to me that the current (Bstatus of a client should be represented by a status code on the client (Brecord. History is the list of *past* status codes. The full history, (Bincluding the current status of a client would be obtained usi

Re: [PERFORM] pg_restore taking 4 hours!

2004-12-13 Thread Iain
Hi, (B (BSorry, I didn't catch the original message, so I'm not sure if the original (Bposter mentioned the postgres version that he's using. (B (BI just thought that I'd contribute this observation. (B (BI have a DB that takes several hours to restore under 7,1 but completes in (Baround

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres version change - pg_dump

2004-12-20 Thread Iain
have to copy the dump file from the old server.   I was thinking you could set up a backup server in this way. On a busy system, it may take a load of the main server so that running backups with users online shouldn't be a problem. That's in theory anyway.   regards Iain   - O

Re: [PERFORM] Howto Increased performace ?

2004-12-26 Thread Iain
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Re: [PERFORM] Howto Increased performace ?

2004-12-27 Thread Iain
checkpoint_segments 8 In theory, effective cache size is the amount of memory left over for the OS to cache the filesystem after running all programs and having 100 users connected, plus a little slack. regards Iain - Original Message - From: "Amrit Angsusingh" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [PERFORM] Howto Increased performace ?

2004-12-27 Thread Iain
ur aim is to reduce swapping by tuning your memory usage for busy times. Also, I heard that (most?what versions?) 32 bit linux kernals are slow at handling more than 2GB memory so a kernal upgrade might be worth considering. regards Iain ---(end of

Re: [PERFORM] Howto Increased performace ?

2004-12-27 Thread Iain
best you can, then you can decide if that is fast enough for you. More memory might help, but I can't say for sure. There are many other things to consider. I suggest that you spend some time reading through the performance and maybe the admin lists. regards Iain - Original Message -

Re: [PERFORM] Howto Increased performace ?

2004-12-27 Thread Iain
e it could cause swapping when the system is busy. In the the not so bad case, the effective cache size estimate will just be completely wrong. Maybe a global sort memory limit would be a good idea, I don't know. regards Iain Iain wrote: sort_mem 4096 (=400MB RAM for 100 connections) If I unde

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

2005-01-20 Thread Iain
stering technology I guess. Nonetheless, I would love to see this kind of functionality in postgres. Regards Iain - Original Message - From: "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruno Almeida do Lago" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'Mitch Pirtle&#x

Re: [PERFORM] How can I make use of both CPUs in a dual processor

2005-02-09 Thread Iain
that doing so should generally reduce the overall processing time, but if there are contention problems then it could conceivably get much worse. regards Iain - Original Message - From: "Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John A Meinel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: S

Re: [PERFORM] VACCUM FULL ANALYZE PROBLEM

2005-02-14 Thread Iain
Hi,   just make sure that your freespace map is big enough and then do a vacuum analyse without the full option.   I can imagine that database performance might not be as good as it would be after a vacuum full, though I expect that it wouldn't make much difference.   regards

Re: [PERFORM] VACCUM FULL ANALYZE PROBLEM

2005-02-14 Thread Iain
anyway.   Would the total time be reduced by dropping the indexes, then vacuuming and rebuilding the indexes? I havn't tried anything like this so I can't say.   You should probably say what version of the db you are using and describe your system a little.   Regards Iain - Orig

Re: [PERFORM] seq scan cache vs. index cache smackdown

2005-02-14 Thread Iain
much weight to seq scans based on single user, straight line performance comparisons. If your assumption is correct, then addressing that might help, though it's bound to have it's compromises too... regards Iain - Original Message - From: "Mark Aufflick" <

Re: [PERFORM] VACCUM FULL ANALYZE PROBLEM

2005-02-14 Thread Iain
too long, but hasn't (Bgiven any specific requirements or limitations. Hopefully you can find (Bsomething suitable in the alternatives listed above. (B (Bregards (BIain (B (B- Original Message - (BFrom: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (BTo: "Iain"

Re: [PERFORM] seq scan cache vs. index cache smackdown

2005-02-14 Thread Iain
Hi Rod, (B (B> Any solution fixing buffers should probably not take into consideration (B> the method being performed (do you really want to skip caching a (B> sequential scan of a 2 tuple table because it didn't use an index) but (B> the volume of data involved as compared to the size of the