You might wanted to upgrade to new version 9.5 with small effort by using
pg_upgrade,
we have done upgrading and achieve more than 20x faster from 8.4 to 9.5 (it
depends on the type of sql statement actually)
Jul.
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On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Mark Kirkwood <
mark.kirkw...@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
> On 19/09/16 19:40, Job wrote:
>
> Hello,
>>
>> i would please like to have some suggestions to optimize Postgres 8.4 for
>> a very heavy number of select (with join) queries.
>> The queries read data, very rarely they write.
>>
>>
> We probably need to see schema and query examples to help you (with
> EXPLAIN ANALYZE output). Also - err 8.4 - I (and others probably) will
> recommend you upgrade to a more recent (and supported for that matter)
> version - currently 9.5/9.6 - lots of performance improvements you are
> missing out on!
>
> Best wishes
>
> Mark
>
>
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