On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:38:01 -0400 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe the particular test case being looked at here is read-only > (Gavin, is that correct?) Yes - I made sure the devels made it readonly so I could farm search requests out to Slony-replicated machines (ended up running live searches for the whole site on a host hundreds of miles away :) > Keep in mind that Gavin's 8-way turns back into a pumpkin on > Monday :-( Aye, it would've been gone earlier today but the rental company were being a bit slack so pushed it back to Monday. The pickup is already arranged so I can't stall them at this stage. I guess I could play the 'help the greater good by lending your kit for open source devel' card with them once they get it back to their office. Otherwise, I've seen at least one offer of pSeries hardware on the performance list - I'm sure I could make available a version of our data with all sensitive stuff removed so that it could be tested on other machines. .. and to top it all off, I didn't even get to go to the ball - and I doubt there'll be a glass slipper on offer... gdh ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match