Re: [PERFORM] Tuning/performance issue...

2003-10-04 Thread Jeff
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I have updated the FAQ to be: > > In comparison to MySQL or leaner database systems, we are > faster for multiple users, complex queries, and a read/write query > load. MySQL is faster for SELECT queries done by a few users. > > Is th

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning/performance issue...

2003-10-03 Thread Tom Lane
Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've often wondered if they win on those because they have a lighter > weight parser / optimizer with less "lets try simplifying this query" > steps or if the MYISAM storage mechanism is simply quicker at pulling > data off the disk. Comparing pre-PREPAREd

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning/performance issue...

2003-10-03 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) would write: > I have updated the FAQ to be: > > In comparison to MySQL or leaner database systems, we are > faster for multiple users, complex queries, and a read/write query > load. MySQL is faster for SE

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning/performance issue...

2003-10-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
Rod Taylor wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. > On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 21:39, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I have updated the FAQ to be: > > > > In comparison to MySQL or leaner database systems, we are > > faster for multiple users, complex queries, and a read/write query > > loa

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning/performance issue...

2003-10-03 Thread Rod Taylor
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 21:39, Bruce Momjian wrote: > I have updated the FAQ to be: > > In comparison to MySQL or leaner database systems, we are > faster for multiple users, complex queries, and a read/write query > load. MySQL is faster for SELECT queries done by a few users. >

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning/performance issue...

2003-10-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
m: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 6:23 AM > To: David Griffiths > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Tuning/performance issue... > Importance: Low > > > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, David Griffiths wrote: > > > > > This i

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning/performance issue...

2003-10-01 Thread Oleg Lebedev
That would be great! When do you think this would be ready for us to see ;?) -Original Message- From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:42 AM To: Oleg Lebedev Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PERFORM] Tuning/performance issue... On Wed, 1 Oct 2003

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning/performance issue...

2003-10-01 Thread Jeff
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Oleg Lebedev wrote: > Jeff, > I would really appreciate if you could send me that lengthy presentation > that you've written on pg/other dbs comparison. > Thanks. > After I give the presentation at work and collect comments from my coworkers (and remove some information you fo

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning/performance issue...

2003-10-01 Thread Oleg Lebedev
bject: Re: [PERFORM] Tuning/performance issue... Importance: Low On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, David Griffiths wrote: > > This is all part of a "migrate away from Oracle" project. We are > looking at 3 databases - MySQL (InnoDB), Postgres and Matisse (object > oriented). We hav

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning/performance issue...

2003-10-01 Thread Tom Lane
David Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The reason PG's planner doesn't discover this join order for itself >> is that it's written to not attempt to re-order outer joins from the >> syntactically defined ordering. In general, such reordering would >> change the results. It is possible to

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning/performance issue...

2003-10-01 Thread Jeff
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, David Griffiths wrote: > > This is all part of a "migrate away from Oracle" project. We are looking at > 3 databases - > MySQL (InnoDB), Postgres and Matisse (object oriented). We have alot of > queries like this > or worse, and I'm worried that many of them would need to be r

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning/performance issue....

2003-10-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
David Griffiths wrote: And finally, Here's the contents of the postgresql.conf file (I've been playing with these setting the last couple of days, and using the guide @ http://www.varlena.com/varlena/GeneralBits/Tidbits/annotated_conf_e.html to make sure I didn't have it mis-tuned): tcpip_s

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning/performance issue...

2003-09-30 Thread David Griffiths
> The most efficient way to handle this query would probably be to join > the three tables with restrictions first, and then join the other tables > to those. You could force this with not too much rewriting using > something like (untested, but I think it's right) > > ... FROM commercial_entity C

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning/performance issue...

2003-09-30 Thread Tom Lane
David Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... FROM commercial_entity, country, user_account, > address_list LEFT JOIN state_province ON address_list.state_province_id > = state_province.state_province_id > LEFT JOIN contact_info ON address_list.contact_info_id = > contact_info.contact_info_id >