[PERFORM] Performance problems with 8.1.1 compared to 7.4.7

2005-12-27 Thread Albert Cervera Areny
Hello, we have a PostgreSQL for datawarehousing. As we heard of so many enhancements for 8.0 and 8.1 versions we dicided to upgrade from 7.4 to 8.1. I must say that the COPY FROM processes are much faster now from 27 to 17 minutes. Some queries where slower, but the performance

Re: [PERFORM] Performance problems with 8.1.1 compared to 7.4.7

2005-12-27 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 05:09:28PM +0100, Albert Cervera Areny wrote: However, now we have a query that is much slower with 8.1 compared to 7.4. The query lasts 7minutes (all the times we try) with 8.1, keeping CPU usage at 93~97% while it lasts 25 seconds in 7.4 the first time going

Re: [PERFORM] Performance problems with 8.1.1 compared to 7.4.7

2005-12-27 Thread Albert Cervera Areny
A Dimarts 27 Desembre 2005 18:13, Michael Fuhr va escriure: On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 05:09:28PM +0100, Albert Cervera Areny wrote: However, now we have a query that is much slower with 8.1 compared to 7.4. The query lasts 7minutes (all the times we try) with 8.1, keeping CPU usage at

Re: [PERFORM] Performance problems with 8.1.1 compared to 7.4.7

2005-12-27 Thread Frank Wiles
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:02:17 +0100 Albert Cervera Areny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any rules of thumb to let a begginer give reasonable values to these parameters? Not only work_mem, but also random_page_cost, and so on. Are there any tests one can run to determine good values?