[PERFORM] LIKE query running slow

2003-09-23 Thread Garrett Bladow
Recently we upgraded the RAM in our server. After the install a LIKE query that used to take 5 seconds now takes 5 minutes. We have tried the usual suspects, VACUUM, ANALYZE and Re-indexing. Any thoughts on what might have happened? -Garrett Bladow ---(end of broadcast

[PERFORM] How to make n_distinct more accurate.

2003-09-23 Thread Nick Fankhauser
Hi- I have a table- called "event" with a field event_date_time that is indexed. There are 1,700,000 rows in the table and 92,000 distinct values of event_date_time with anywhere from 1 to 400 rows sharing the same value. (I did a count grouped by event_date_time & scanned it to get this info.) W

Re: [PERFORM] restore time: sort_mem vs. checkpoing_segments

2003-09-23 Thread Bruce Momjian
Vivek Khera wrote: > And the winner is... checkpoint_segments. > > Restore of a significanly big database (~19.8GB restored) shows nearly > no time difference depending on sort_mem when checkpoint_segments is > large. There are quite a number of tables and indexes. The restore > was done from a

Re: [PERFORM] restore time: sort_mem vs. checkpoing_segments

2003-09-23 Thread Vivek Khera
> "BM" == Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BM> restore, even if there is no value to it being large during normal BM> server operation. Should that be decumented? Yes, right alongside the recommendation to bump sort_mem, even though in my tests sort_mem made no significant differen

Re: [PERFORM] restore time: sort_mem vs. checkpoing_segments

2003-09-23 Thread Vivek Khera
> "RT" == Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RT> hmm... i wonder what would happen if you pushed your sort_mem higher... RT> on some of our development boxes and upgrade scripts, i push the RT> sort_mem to 102400 and sometimes even higher depending on the box. this RT> really speeds up m