Re: [PERFORM] Partitioned table performance

2004-12-14 Thread Stacy White
Josh, You're absolutely correct that the overhead becomes less significant as the partitioning prunes more rows. I can even see a two-partition table being useful in some situations (e.g., a table divided into a relatively small "recent data" partition and a much larger "historical data" partitio

[PERFORM] Query Optimization

2004-12-14 Thread sarlav kumar
Hi all,   Can someone please help me optimize this query? Is there a better way to write this query? I am generating a report of transactions ordered by time and with details of the sender and receiver etc.   SELECT distinct a.time::date ||''||substring(a.time::time::text,1,8) as Time,CASE WHEN a.

Re: [PERFORM] Speeding up pg_dump

2004-12-14 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 17:36, Rod Taylor wrote: > Are there any tricks to speeding up pg_dump aside from doing them from a > replicated machine? > > I'm using -Fc with no compression. Run a separate pg_dump for larger tables and run them concurrently so you use more cpu and disk resources. The lo

Re: [PERFORM] Using LIMIT changes index used by planner

2004-12-14 Thread Tom Lane
Sven Willenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On a related note, is there a way (other than set enable_seqscan=off) to > give a hint to the planner that it is cheaper to use and index scan > versus seq scan? There are basically two things you can do. One: if the planner's rowcount estimates are

Re: [PERFORM] Using LIMIT changes index used by planner

2004-12-14 Thread Sven Willenberger
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 17:43 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Sven Willenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > explain analyze select storelocation,order_number from custacct where > > referrer = 1365 and orderdate between '2004-12-07' and '2004-12-07 > > 12:00:00' order by custacctid limit 10; > > >

Re: [PERFORM] Anything to be gained from a 'Postgres Filesystem'?

2004-12-14 Thread Markus Schaber
Hi, Christopher, [sorry for the delay of my answer, we were rather busy last weks] On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 21:29:04 -0500 Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (Markus Schaber) transmitted: > > We should create a lis

[PERFORM] Speeding up pg_dump

2004-12-14 Thread Rod Taylor
Are there any tricks to speeding up pg_dump aside from doing them from a replicated machine? I'm using -Fc with no compression. -- ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomai

Re: [PERFORM] Hardware purchase question

2004-12-14 Thread Andrew Hood
Joshua D. Drake wrote: An Opteron, properly tuned with PostgreSQL will always beat a Xeon in terms of raw cpu. RAID 10 will typically always outperform RAID 5 with the same HD config. Fibre channel in general will always beat a normal (especially an LSI) raid. Dell's suck for PostgreSQL. Does any