I fear this has been asked many times about PostgreSQL, and I have read
the docs about how indexes are supposed to be defined and used, but I
don't understand why the engine and optimizer is doing what it does in
the simplest of situations. Is it that its tuning is heavily data
dependent?
My case
thanks for all your useful comments. i will study all of them.
a couple of inline comments below, just for clarification to the group,
marked with asterisks.
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 13:13:23 -0500, "Scott Marlowe"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 10/1/07, Jan Theodore Galkowsk
Does anyone know, or can anyone point to information about how much
triggers penalize inserts in PG tables? I'm getting a report that it is
substantial, and before I investigate more. The triggers in question
look like:
#
# CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION touch_lasttouched() RETURNS TRIGGER AS
$touch_
