Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] HELP speed up my Postgres

2004-11-26 Thread Jerome Macaranas
it did.. thanks.. generally a weeks process turned out to be less than a day.. On Thursday 25 November 2004 15:06, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > update SUBSCRIPTIONTABLE set ACTIVEFLAG='Y' where mobile_num in > > (select > > mobile_num from LOADED_MOBILE_NUMBERS) > > Change t

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres backend using huge amounts of ram

2004-11-26 Thread Richard Huxton
Gary Doades wrote: How much RAM can a single postgres backend use? I've just loaded a moderately sized dataset into postgres and was applying RI constraints to the tables (using pgadmin on windows). Part way though I noticed the (single) postgres backend had shot up to using 300+ MB of my RAM! Oops

[PERFORM] time to stop tuning?

2004-11-26 Thread David Parker
We have a network application in which many clients will be executing a mix of select/insert/update/deletes on a central postgres 7.4.5 database, running on Solaris 9 running on dual 2.3 ghz Xeons, with 2 gig of RAM and a RAID 10 disk. The test database is about 400 meg in size. We have tuned t

Re: [PERFORM] time to stop tuning?

2004-11-26 Thread Tom Lane
"David Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) Given that the data is all cached, what can we do to make sure that > postgres is generating the most efficient plans in this case? We have > bumped up effective_cache_size, but it had no effect. If you're willing to bet on everything being in RAM al

Re: [PERFORM] time to stop tuning?

2004-11-26 Thread David Parker
Hi. Thanks for responding. As it happens, the client-side already has a connection pool. We need statistics enabled so that autovacuum can run (without autovacuum running our updates begin to kill us pretty quickly). Moving off of Solaris 9 isn't an option, even for the purposes of comparison,

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres backend using huge amounts of ram

2004-11-26 Thread Tom Lane
Gary Doades <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just loaded a moderately sized dataset into postgres and was > applying RI constraints to the tables (using pgadmin on windows). Part > way though I noticed the (single) postgres backend had shot up to using > 300+ MB of my RAM! > Since I can't get an

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres backend using huge amounts of ram

2004-11-26 Thread Gary Doades
Tom Lane wrote: It's also worth noting that work_mem is temporarily set to maintenance_work_mem, which you didn't tell us the value of: It's left at the default. (16384). This would be OK if that is all it used for this type of thing. My recollection is that hash join chooses hash table partitions