On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 22:16:27 -0500, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lonni J Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The spam filtering package I use (dspam) had a section in their > > release notes recently which stated that disabling OIDs greatly > > increased speeds, and so they suggested that people do that on their > > tables. > > "greatly increased"? I doubt it. > > Last I heard, dspam was not noted for any large amount of cluefulness > WRT postgres. It was only recently that we managed to talk them out of > their most egregious bits of mysql-centricity. Going to them for > postgres tuning tips is about like coming to me for mysql tuning ... >
OK, thanks. So is there any real benefit in doing this in a generic (non-dspam) sense, or is it just a hack that wouldn't be noticable? Any risks or potential problems down the line? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
