Re: [PERFORM] General performance questions about postgres on Apple

2004-06-06 Thread Gregory S. Williamson
Why is my name on a mail from Tom Lane ? Really, he knows a *lot* more than I and should get due credit. Seriously, is this the peformance remailer mangling something ? Greg Williamson (the real one) -Original Message- From: Gregory S. Williamson Sent: Sun 6/6/2004 10:46 PM To:

Re: [PERFORM] General performance questions about postgres on Apple

2004-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
Sean Shanny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We have the following setting for random page cost: > random_page_cost = 1# units are one sequential page fetch cost > Any suggestions on what to bump it up to? Well, the default setting is 4 ... what measurements prompted you to reduce it to 1

Re: [PERFORM] Column correlation drifts, index ignored again

2004-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
John Siracusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to do something that will convince Postgres that using the date > index is, by far, the best plan when running my queries, even when the > date column correlation stat drops well below 1.0. Have you tried experimenting with random_page_cost?

Re: [PERFORM] [JDBC] Using a COPY...FROM through JDBC?

2004-06-06 Thread Markus Schaber
Hi, Steve, On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 13:12:29 -0700 Steve Wampler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a simple database (no indices, 6 columns) that I need > to write data quickly into through JDBC connections from > multiple such connections simultaneously in a distributed > environment. (This is g

Re: [PERFORM] postgres performance: comparing 2 data centers

2004-06-06 Thread Rod Taylor
> The members table contains about 500k rows. It has an index on > (group_id, member_id) and on (member_id, group_id). Yes, bad stats are causing it to pick a poor plan, but you're giving it too many options (which doesn't help) and using space up unnecessarily. Keep (group_id, member_id) Remov

Re: [PERFORM] Query involving views

2004-06-06 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "Tom" == Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> Laurent Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Now, if I use the following view to abstract access rights: >> CREATE VIEW userpictures ( >> PictureID,RollID,FrameID,Description,Filename, >> Owner,EntryDate,Date, >> NbClick,NbRa

Re: [PERFORM] Query involving views

2004-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
Laurent Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now, if I use the following view to abstract access rights: > CREATE VIEW userpictures ( >PictureID,RollID,FrameID,Description,Filename, >Owner,EntryDate,Date, >NbClick,NbRates,MaxRate,MinRate,AverageRate,SumRates, >Use

[PERFORM] Query involving views

2004-06-06 Thread Laurent Martelli
Hello again, This question is related to my previous one (Unused table of view, see http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2004-06/msg00043.php). For the moment, I have queries where I join tables by hand. Since a few tables are always joined together, I thought I could define a view to

Re: [PERFORM] Slow in morning hours

2004-06-06 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi All, > I am using Linux 7.2 and postgresql 7.2. > Our Office hours are over at 6pm but we use to keep our server > running 24 hours a day. On the second day morning, Our PGSQL > Server becomes very slow. > After continuous usage