Re: [PERFORM] Simple query: how to optimize

2005-10-28 Thread Roger Hand
On October 28, 2005 2:54 PM Collin Peters wrote: I have two tables, one is called 'users' the other is 'user_activity'. ... I am trying to write a simple query that returns the last time each user logged into the system. This is how the query looks at the moment: SELECT u.user_id,

Re: [PERFORM] [HACKERS] Query in SQL statement

2005-10-01 Thread Roger Hand
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim C. Nasby Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [PERFORM] [HACKERS] Query in SQL statement I suggest ditching the CamelCase and going with underline_seperators. I'd also not use the

Re: [PERFORM] Query plan looks OK, but slow I/O - settings advice?

2005-08-19 Thread Roger Hand
Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 10:46 -0700, Roger Hand wrote: The disks are ext3 with journalling type of ordered, but this was later changed to writeback with no apparent change in speed. They're on a Dell poweredge 6650 with LSI raid card, setup as follows: 4 disks raid 10

Re: [PERFORM] Need for speed

2005-08-18 Thread Roger Hand
Ulrich Wisser wrote: one of our services is click counting for on line advertising. We do this by importing Apache log files every five minutes. This results in a lot of insert and delete statements. ... If you are doing mostly inserting, make sure you are in a transaction, Well, yes,

[PERFORM] Query plan looks OK, but slow I/O - settings advice?

2005-08-18 Thread Roger Hand
Summary === We are writing to the db pretty much 24 hours a day. Recently the amount of data we write has increased, and the query speed, formerly okay, has taken a dive. The query is using the indexes as expected, so I don't _think_ I have a query tuning issue, just an io problem. The

Re: [PERFORM] What needs to be done for real Partitioning?

2005-04-26 Thread Roger Hand
On March 21, 2005 8:07 AM, Hannu Krosing wrote: On L, 2005-03-19 at 23:47 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Well, partitioning on the primary key would be Good Enough for 95% or 99% of the real problems out there. I'm not excited about adding a large chunk of complexity to cover another few percent.