Re: [GENERAL] postgres 8 settings

2005-03-12 Thread Tom Lane
"vinita bansal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, a particular query which was taking a min or less with postgres 7 is > taking 15 mins now. > Here is the query plan for the query both for postgres 7.4.6 and postgres 8: It's hard to say anything about this when you only provided EXPLAIN and not

Re: [GENERAL] postgres 8 settings

2005-03-12 Thread Tom Lane
"vinita bansal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can you please provide details on the relationship between work_mem and > maintenance_work_mem (Postgres doc specifies that the value for maintenance > work_mem should be larger but I am not clear on why that should be so) Because the other way doesn

Re: [GENERAL] postgres 8 settings

2005-03-12 Thread vinita bansal
all settings, I am not too sure on why it should be a problem and how in any way it can affect me? Also can you clarify what max_fsm_pages,bg_writer actually is since it is not clear from the documentation. Won't turning bg_writer on affect my overall run. I am too bothered about that since I

Re: [GENERAL] postgres 8 settings

2005-03-10 Thread Tom Lane
"vinita bansal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do these settings seem fine or I am making some mistake. These settings when > used with Postgres 7.4 gave me good results but they don't seem to work with > Postgres 8.0. Am I missing out on something?? Define "don't seem to work", please. Offhand

Re: [GENERAL] postgres 8 settings

2005-03-10 Thread Mike Rylander
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:58:02 +, vinita bansal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 64 bit Opteron m/c with 32GB RAM and ~500GB HardDrive. The database > size is ~45GB. > I've got a similar box, but with only 16G RAM. What is the storage subsystem, fibre channel or SCSI? Also, what