Re: [GENERAL] size of bytea + performance issues

2006-01-31 Thread tschak
source of this "blowup"? Thanks for your help, Tschak ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get th

[GENERAL] size of bytea + performance issues

2006-01-31 Thread tschak
ould give me a hint which system to use (DB2, Sybase, Oracle, Informix, Postgres) this would be great... THX tschak ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

[GENERAL] this is what i meant

2006-01-16 Thread tschak
> If you don't need an OID, don't include it. IIRC, bit(4) will be 8 > bytes due to being variable length. If you want to store small numbers, > maybe smallint (2 bytes) is more useful. What I acually meant was the OID... Is smallint(2) the smalles size I can allocate? If I cannot allocate 4Bit o

[GENERAL] Row Size and Indexing

2006-01-14 Thread tschak
Hi guys, I have some questions about postgres and would be glad if you could help me... Here ist what I am planning to do: Build a database with 1 Billion (10^9) rows describing geometric properties: create table steric_descriptor( distance0 bit(4), distance1 bit(4, distance2 bit(4, distance3 bit(

Re: [GENERAL] Set Returning Function (Pipelining)

2005-11-23 Thread tschak
pipelining I would not need to worry about partitioning the query and thus distributing the workload. At least as far as I understand the pipelining feature... tschak ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your

[GENERAL] Set Returning Function (Pipelining)

2005-11-22 Thread tschak
r than 7.3). My question is now wether the result is returned linewise in an newer version and if yes, wether a program using the S(erver)P(rogramming)I(interface) can utilize this functionality in order get a better distribution of the workload? Thx for your help, tschak