Re: [HACKERS] Single table forcing sequential scans on query plans

2008-03-16 Thread Cristian Gafton
; Could you confirm that your problem cases are actually caused by this > effect and not something else? Yes, confirmed. The runaway queries all are joining against an empty temporary table. Thanks, Cristian -- Cristian Gafton rPath, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Single table forcing sequential scans on query plans

2008-03-16 Thread Cristian Gafton
it - unless there is some trick to tell the planner that this is a query that would be much better optimized away instead of causing a massive IO storm. Thanks, Cristian -- Cristian Gafton rPath, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

[HACKERS] Single table forcing sequential scans on query plans

2008-03-15 Thread Cristian Gafton
-> Hash (cost=946.07..946.07 rows=42807 width=58) -> Seq Scan on versions (cost=0.00..946.07 rows=42807 width=58) -> Hash (cost=354.65..354.65 rows=19465 width=23) -> Seq Scan on items (cost=0.00..354.65 rows=19465 width=23) (28 rows) Thanks, Cri

Re: [HACKERS] Large pgstat.stat file causes I/O storm

2008-01-29 Thread Cristian Gafton
e oids of the temp tables it creates and investigate from that angle, but in the meantime is there any way to reset the stats collector altogether? Could this be a corrupt stat file that gets read and written right back on every loop without any sort of validation? Thanks, Cristian -- Cristian

Re: [HACKERS] Large pgstat.stat file causes I/O storm

2008-01-29 Thread Cristian Gafton
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Tom Lane wrote: Cristian Gafton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Autovacuum is disabled, since the database is mostly read only. There is a "vacuumdb -a -z" running nightly on the box. However, the application that queries it does a lot of work with temporar

Re: [HACKERS] Large pgstat.stat file causes I/O storm

2008-01-29 Thread Cristian Gafton
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Tom Lane wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Cristian Gafton wrote: I have a ~150GB sized server, containing two databases that are active in mostly read mode. I have noticed lately that the global/pgstat.stat file is somewhere around 1MB freshly after a restart, but at some point

Re: [HACKERS] Large pgstat.stat file causes I/O storm

2008-01-29 Thread Cristian Gafton
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Cristian Gafton wrote: I have a ~150GB sized server, containing two databases that are active in mostly read mode. I have noticed lately that the global/pgstat.stat file is somewhere around 1MB freshly after a restart, but at some point it baloons to 74MB in size for no

[HACKERS] Large pgstat.stat file causes I/O storm

2008-01-29 Thread Cristian Gafton
rather small in size. Am I right to assume that a 74MB pgstat.stat file is not normal - and what might have caused it? Thanks, Cristian -- Cristian Gafton rPath, Inc. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free spac