Re: [PERFORM] 8.1 iss

2005-11-08 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am Montag, 7. November 2005 18:22 schrieb PostgreSQL: > My most humble apologies to the pg development team (pg_lets?). > > I took Greg Stark's advice and set: > > shared_buffers = 1 # was 5 > work_mem = 1048576# 1Gb - was 16384 > > Also, I noticed that the EXPLAIN ANALYZE consistently

Re: [PERFORM] Order by behaviour

2005-12-23 Thread Mario Weilguni
gards, Mario Weilguni Am Freitag, 23. Dezember 2005 13:34 schrieb Carlos Benkendorf: > Hi, > > We have more than 200 customers running 8.0.3 and two weeks ago started > migration project to 8.1.1.After the first migration to 8.1.1 we had to > return back to 8.0.3 because some a

Re: [PERFORM] Performance of count(*)

2007-03-22 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am Donnerstag, 22. März 2007 12:30 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > approximated count? > > why? who would need it? where you can use it? > > calculating costs and desiding how to execute query needs > approximated count, but it's totally worthless information for any user > IMO. No, it is not use

Re: [PERFORM] Performance of count(*)

2007-03-22 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am Donnerstag, 22. März 2007 15:33 schrieb Jonah H. Harris: > On 3/22/07, Merlin Moncure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As others suggest select count(*) from table is very special case > > which non-mvcc databases can optimize for. > > Well, other MVCC database still do it faster than we do. Howe

Re: [PERFORM] Performance of count(*)

2007-03-22 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am Donnerstag, 22. März 2007 16:17 schrieb Andreas Kostyrka: > * Mario Weilguni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070322 15:59]: > > Am Donnerstag, 22. März 2007 15:33 schrieb Jonah H. Harris: > > > On 3/22/07, Merlin Moncure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > As ot

Re: [PERFORM] postgres: 100% CPU utilization

2007-04-23 Thread Mario Weilguni
um' as frequently as every 15-30 minutes? No problem. > > 4. Suggestions? Do yourself a favor and upgrade at least to 8.1.x and use autovacuum. Best regards Mario Weilguni ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [PERFORM] Database Statistics???

2007-07-13 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am Freitag 13 Juli 2007 schrieb smiley2211: > Hello all, > > I am a bit confused...I have a database which was performing very POORLY > selecting from a view (posted earlier) on one server but extremely fast on > another server... > > I just backed up the database from the FAST server and loaded to

Re: [PERFORM] index over timestamp not being used

2007-07-25 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am Dienstag 24 Juli 2007 schrieb Tom Lane: > > I thought the > > to_char/to_date/to_timestamp functions were intented for this purposes > > No, they're intended for dealing with wacky formats that the regular > input/output routines can't understand or produce. Really? I use them alot, because of

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [PERFORM] 8.2 -> 8.3 performance numbers

2007-07-25 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am Mittwoch 25 Juli 2007 schrieb Simon Riggs: > I have reasonable evidence that Referential Integrity is the major > performance bottleneck and would like some objective evidence that this > is the case. Just curious, will 8.3 still check FK constraints (and use locks) even if the referencing col

Re: [PERFORM] DRBD and Postgres: how to improve the perfomance?

2007-09-11 Thread Mario Weilguni
Simon Riggs schrieb: On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 11:37 +0200, Maila Fatticcioni wrote: protocol C; Try protocol B instead. Sure? I've always heard that there has yet to be a case found, where B is better than C. We use DRBD with protocol C, and are quite happy with it. --

Re: [PERFORM] efficient pattern queries (using LIKE, ~)

2007-09-11 Thread Mario Weilguni
Fernan Aguero schrieb: Hi, I have a table containing some ~13 million rows. Queries on indexed fields run fast, but unanchored pattern queries on a text column are slow. Indexing the column doesn't help (this is already mentioned in the manual). http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive

Re: [PERFORM] Which RAID Controllers to pick/avoid?

2011-02-03 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am 03.02.2011 00:15, schrieb Dan Birken: I'm setting up a dedicated linux postgres box with 2x300GB 15k SAS drive in a RAID 1, though if future load dictates we would like to be able to upgrade to RAID 10. The hosting provider offers the following options for a RAID controller (all are the sam

Re: [PERFORM] Physical column size

2006-01-26 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2006 11:06 schrieb Paul Mackay: > Hi, > > I've created a table like this : > CREATE TABLE tmp_A ( > c "char", > i int4 > ); > > And another one > CREATE TABLE tmp_B ( > i int4, > ii int4 > ); > > I then inerted a bit more than 19 million rows in each table (exactly the > s

Re: [PERFORM] optimizing LIKE '%2345' queries

2006-07-03 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am Sonntag, 2. Juli 2006 23:50 schrieb Gene: > Is there any way to create a reverse index on string columns so that > queries of the form: > > where column like '%2345'; > > can use an index and perform as fast as searching with like '2345%'? > > Is the only way to create a reverse function and cre

Re: [PERFORM] Optimization of this SQL sentence

2006-10-17 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am Dienstag, 17. Oktober 2006 11:52 schrieb Alexander Staubo: > Lastly, note that in PostgreSQL these length declarations are not   > necessary: > >    contacto varchar(255), >    fuente varchar(512), >    prefijopais varchar(10) > > Instead, use: > >    contacto text, >    fuente text, >    prefij

Re: [PERFORM] Optimization of this SQL sentence

2006-10-18 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am Dienstag, 17. Oktober 2006 17:50 schrieb Alexander Staubo: > On Oct 17, 2006, at 17:29 , Mario Weilguni wrote: > > > > Enforcing length constraints with varchar(xyz) is good database > > design, not a > > bad one. Using text everywhere might be tempting because it wo

Re: [PERFORM] 8rc2 & BLCKSZ

2004-12-22 Thread Mario Weilguni
management system), and the performance of the 32k variants is slightly better for a few queries, overall responsivness seems to better with 8k (maybe because the 8k variant has 4x more buffers). Regards, Mario Weilguni ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [PERFORM] What's better: Raid 0 or disk for seperate pg_xlog

2005-03-10 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am Donnerstag, 10. März 2005 08:44 schrieb Karim Nassar: > From rom http://www.powerpostgresql.com/PerfList/ > > "even in a two-disk server, you can put the transaction log onto the > operating system disk and reap some benefits." > > Context: I have a two disk server that is about to become dedica

Re: [PERFORM] Curious about dead rows.

2007-11-14 Thread Mario Weilguni
Jean-David Beyer schrieb: I am doing lots of INSERTs on a table that starts out empty (I did a TRUNCATE on it). I am not, AFAIK, doing DELETEs or UPDATEs. Autovacuum is on. I moved logging up to debug2 level to see what was going on, and I get things like this: "vl_as": scanned 3000 of 5296 pag

Re: [PERFORM] Very slow INFORMATION_SCHEMA

2008-05-05 Thread Mario Weilguni
g_attribute_relid_attnum_index on pg_attribute a (cost=0.00..4.27 rows=1 width=70) (actual time=0.006..0.007 rows=1 loops=4020) Index Cond: ((ss.roid = a.attrelid) AND (a.attnum = (ss.x).x)) Filter: (NOT attisdropped) Total runtime: 30346.174 ms (60 rows) X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGuard (Version: 8.0.0.18; AVE: 8.1.0.37; VDF: 7.0.3.243) This is Postgresql 8.2.4, on a Dual-Core XEON 3.6GHz. With nested_loops off, I get a very fast response (330ms). Regards, Mario Weilguni -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance

Re: [PERFORM] Altering a column type - Most efficient way

2008-07-10 Thread Mario Weilguni
Ow Mun Heng schrieb: Is there any quick hacks to do this quickly? There's around 20-30million rows of data. I want to change a column type from varchar(4) to varchar() table size is ~10-15GB (and another 10-15G for indexes) What would be the preferrred way of doing it? SHould I be dropping t

Re: [PERFORM] Altering a column type - Most efficient way

2008-07-11 Thread Mario Weilguni
Ow Mun Heng schrieb: On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 09:57 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: This is what I see on the table NEW attypmod = -1 OLD attypmod = 8 8 means varchar(4) which is what you said you had (4+4) -1 means unlimited size. This is cool. If it

Re: [PERFORM] Less rows -> better performance?

2008-07-21 Thread Mario Weilguni
Andreas Hartmann schrieb: Mario Weilguni schrieb: Andreas Hartmann schrieb: […] I just verified that the autovacuum property is enabled. […] Did you have: stats_start_collector = on stats_block_level = on stats_row_level = on Otherwise autovacuum won't run IMO. Thanks for the

Re: [PERFORM] file system and raid performance

2008-08-07 Thread Mario Weilguni
Mark Kirkwood schrieb: Mark Kirkwood wrote: You are right, it does (I may be recalling performance from my other machine that has a 3Ware card - this was a couple of years ago...) Anyway, I'm thinking for the Hardware raid tests they may need to be specified. FWIW - of course this somewha

Re: [PERFORM] Using PK value as a String

2008-08-12 Thread Mario Weilguni
Valentin Bogdanov schrieb: --- On Mon, 11/8/08, Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Using PK value as a String To: "Jay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Date: Monday, 11 August, 2008, 10:30 AM "Jay"

Re: [PERFORM] Increasing pattern index query speed

2008-11-26 Thread Mario Weilguni
Andrus schrieb: Richard, These are the same but the times are different. I'd be very surprised if you can reproduce these times reliably. I re-tried today again and got same results: in production database pattern query is many times slower that equality query. toode and rid base contain o

Re: [PERFORM] performance tuning queries

2008-11-27 Thread Mario Weilguni
Kevin Kempter schrieb: Hi All; I'm looking for tips / ideas per performance tuning some specific queries. These are generally large tables on a highly active OLTP system (100,000 - 200,000 plus queries per day) First off, any thoughts per tuning inserts into large tables. I have a large tab

Re: [PERFORM] Deteriorating performance when loading large objects

2008-11-28 Thread Mario Weilguni
Tom Lane schrieb: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Vegard_B=F8nes?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Running VACUUM VERBOSE pg_largeobject took quite some time. Here's the output: INFO: vacuuming "pg_catalog.pg_largeobject" INFO: index "pg_largeobject_loid_pn_index" now contains 11060658 row versions

[PERFORM] Experience with HP Smart Array P400 and SATA drives?

2008-12-02 Thread Mario Weilguni
Has anyone benchmarked this controller (PCIe/4x, 512 MB BBC)? We try to use it with 8x SATA 1TB drives in RAID-5 mode under Linux, and measure strange values. An individual drive is capable of delivering 91 MB/sec sequential read performance, and we get values ~102MB/sec out of a 8-drive RAID5,

Re: [PERFORM] Experience with HP Smart Array P400 and SATA drives?

2008-12-09 Thread Mario Weilguni
Scott Marlowe schrieb: On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Mario Weilguni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone benchmarked this controller (PCIe/4x, 512 MB BBC)? We try to use it with 8x SATA 1TB drives in RAID-5 mode under Linux, and measure strange values. An individual drive is capa

Re: [PERFORM] Experience with HP Smart Array P400 and SATA drives?

2008-12-09 Thread Mario Weilguni
Kevin Grittner schrieb: Mario Weilguni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone benchmarked this controller (PCIe/4x, 512 MB BBC)? We try to use it with 8x SATA 1TB drives in RAID-5 mode under Linux, and measure strange values. An individual drive is capa

Re: [PERFORM] Experience with HP Smart Array P400 and SATA drives?

2008-12-09 Thread Mario Weilguni
Alan Hodgson schrieb: Mario Weilguni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: strange values. An individual drive is capable of delivering 91 MB/sec sequential read performance, and we get values ~102MB/sec out of a 8-drive RAID5, seems to be ridiculous slow. What command a

Re: [PERFORM] Experience with HP Smart Array P400 and SATA drives?

2008-12-09 Thread Mario Weilguni
Scott Marlowe schrieb: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:17 AM, Mario Weilguni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alan Hodgson schrieb: Mario Weilguni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: strange values. An individual drive is capable of delivering 91 MB/sec sequential read perf

Re: [PERFORM] Experience with HP Smart Array P400 and SATA drives?

2008-12-10 Thread Mario Weilguni
Aidan Van Dyk schrieb: * Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081209 11:01]: Yes the SmartArray series is quite common and actually know to perform reasonably well, in RAID 10. You still appear to be trying RAID 5. *boggle* Are people *still* using raid5? /me gives up! Why

Re: [PERFORM] Experience with HP Smart Array P400 and SATA drives?

2008-12-10 Thread Mario Weilguni
Scott Marlowe schrieb: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Mario Weilguni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A customer of us uses the P400 on a different machine, 8 SAS drives (Raid 5 as well), and the performance is very, very good. So we thought it's a good choice. Maybe the SATA dri

Re: [PERFORM] Experience with HP Smart Array P400 and SATA drives?

2008-12-10 Thread Mario Weilguni
Aidan Van Dyk schrieb: * Mario Weilguni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081210 07:31]: Why not? I know it's not performing as good as RAID-10, but it does not waste 50% diskspace. RAID-6 is no option, because the performance is even worse. And, on another system with RAID-5 + spare and

Re: [PERFORM] vacuum locking

2003-10-22 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2003 01:32 schrieb Rob Nagler: > The concept of vacuuming seems to be problematic. I'm not sure why > the database simply can't garbage collect incrementally. AGC is very > tricky, especially AGC that involves gigabytes of data on disk. > Incremental garbage collection

Re: [PERFORM] vacuum locking

2003-10-23 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2003 15:26 schrieb Tom Lane: > ... if all tuples are the same size, and if you never have any > transactions that touch enough tuples to overflow your undo segment > (or even just sit there for a long time, preventing you from recycling > undo-log space; this is the dual

Re: [PERFORM] Performance Problem with postgresql 9.03, 8GB RAM,Quadcore Processor Server--Need help!!!!!!!

2011-11-03 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am 02.11.2011 08:12, schrieb Mohamed Hashim: Dear All Thanks for your suggestions & replies. The below are the sample query which i put for particular one bill_id EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT abd.bill_no as bill_no,to_char(abd.bill_date,'dd/mm/') AS date,mp.product_desc as product_desc,std.qua

Re: [PERFORM] Performance Problem with postgresql 9.03, 8GB RAM,Quadcore Processor Server--Need help!!!!!!!

2011-11-03 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am 03.11.2011 17:08, schrieb Tomas Vondra: On 3 Listopad 2011, 16:02, Mario Weilguni wrote: No doubt about that, querying tables using conditions on array columns is not the best direction in most cases, especially when those tables are huge. Still, the interesting part here is that the OP

Re: [PERFORM] Performance Problem with postgresql 9.03, 8GB RAM,Quadcore Processor Server--Need help!!!!!!!

2011-11-08 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am 08.11.2011 13:15, schrieb Mohamed Hashim: Hi Sam,Tomas In my first post i have mentioned all how much shared (shared buffers, effective cache size, work mem, etc.) and my OS and hardware information and what are the basic settings i have changed and regarding Explain analyze i gave one sa

Re: [PERFORM] Large number of short lived connections - could a connection pool help?

2011-11-15 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am 15.11.2011 01:42, schrieb Cody Caughlan: We have anywhere from 60-80 background worker processes connecting to Postgres, performing a short task and then disconnecting. The lifetime of these tasks averages 1-3 seconds. I know that there is some connection overhead to Postgres, but I dont know

Re: [PERFORM] Postgresql 9.0.6 Raid 5 or not please help.

2011-12-23 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am 23.12.2011 08:05, schrieb Scott Marlowe: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:18 PM, tuanhoanganh wrote: Thanks for your answer. But how performance between raid5 and one disk. One disk will usually win, 2 disks (in a mirror) will definitely win. RAID-5 has the highest overhead and the poorest perfor

Re: [PERFORM] auto vacuum, not working?

2012-01-13 Thread Mario Weilguni
Am 13.01.2012 13:08, schrieb Anibal David Acosta: Hi, yesterday I delete about 200 million rows of a table (about 150GB of data), after delete completes the autovacuum process start. The autovacuum is running for about 11 hours but no space is released Autovacuum parameters are with default