Re: [PERFORM] rtree/gist index taking enormous amount of space in 8.2.3

2007-07-09 Thread Dolafi, Tom
Thank you for the patch. The index size is back down to 500MB and there are no performance issues with queries against the table. -Original Message- From: Teodor Sigaev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 8:08 AM To: Tom Lane Cc: Dolafi, Tom; pgsql-performance@postgres

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark

2007-07-09 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:48:44PM -0400, Jignesh K. Shah wrote: > > Hi Heikki, > > Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > > > >That's really exciting news! > > > >I'm sure you spent a lot of time tweaking the settings, so let me ask > >you something topical: > > > >How did you end up with the bgwriter set

Re: [PERFORM] Filesystem Direct I/O and WAL sync option

2007-07-09 Thread Jonah H. Harris
On 7/9/07, Jim C. Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW, it might be worth trying the different wal_sync_methods. IIRC, Jonah's seen some good results from open_datasync. On Linux, using ext3, reiser, or jfs, I've seen open_sync perform quite better than fsync/fdatasync in most of my tests. But

Re: [PERFORM] Filesystem Direct I/O and WAL sync option

2007-07-09 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 04:06:29PM +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > Dimitri wrote: > >I'm very curious to know if we may expect or guarantee any data > >consistency with WAL sync=OFF but using file system mounted in Direct > >I/O mode (means every write() system call called by PG really writes >

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark

2007-07-09 Thread Jonah H. Harris
On 7/9/07, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PostgreSQL still beats MySQL ;) Agreed. -- Jonah H. Harris, Software Architect | phone: 732.331.1324 EnterpriseDB Corporation| fax: 732.331.1301 33 Wood Ave S, 3rd Floor| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iselin, New Jersey 08830

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark

2007-07-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Jonah H. Harris wrote: On 7/9/07, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There's just enough hardware differences between the two configurations that it's not quite a fair fight. For example, the MySQL test had 10K RPM drives in the database server storage array, while the PostgreSQL one had 1

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark

2007-07-09 Thread Jonah H. Harris
On 7/9/07, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There's just enough hardware differences between the two configurations that it's not quite a fair fight. For example, the MySQL test had 10K RPM drives in the database server storage array, while the PostgreSQL one had 15K RPM ones. A few other

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark

2007-07-09 Thread Greg Smith
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote: I would note that if you track through the other results that we indeed beat MySQL ;) There's just enough hardware differences between the two configurations that it's not quite a fair fight. For example, the MySQL test had 10K RPM drives in the da

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark

2007-07-09 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: It is also the reason that those in the know typically ignore all benchmarks and do their own testing. Heresy! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark

2007-07-09 Thread Magnus Hagander
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:57:13AM -0400, Jignesh K. Shah wrote: >>> I think this result will be useful for performance discussions of >>> postgresql against other databases. >>> >>> http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/results/res2007q3/ >> >>

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark

2007-07-09 Thread Jignesh K. Shah
Hi Heikki, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: That's really exciting news! I'm sure you spent a lot of time tweaking the settings, so let me ask you something topical: How did you end up with the bgwriter settings you used? Did you experiment with different values? How much difference did it make?

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark

2007-07-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:57:13AM -0400, Jignesh K. Shah wrote: I think this result will be useful for performance discussions of postgresql against other databases. http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/results/res2007q3/ Am I right if this is for a T2000 (Niagara)

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark

2007-07-09 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:57:13AM -0400, Jignesh K. Shah wrote: > I think this result will be useful for performance discussions of > postgresql against other databases. > > http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/results/res2007q3/ Am I right if this is for a T2000 (Niagara) database server? It sure

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark

2007-07-09 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Jignesh K. Shah wrote: Hello all, I think this result will be useful for performance discussions of postgresql against other databases. http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/results/res2007q3/ More on Josh Berkus's blog: http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/database/soup/archives/postgresql-publishes-fi

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark

2007-07-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Jonah H. Harris wrote: On 7/9/07, Jignesh K. Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think this result will be useful for performance discussions of postgresql against other databases. I'm happy to see an industry-standard benchmark result for PostgreSQL. Great work guys! I would note that if you

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark

2007-07-09 Thread Jonah H. Harris
On 7/9/07, Jignesh K. Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think this result will be useful for performance discussions of postgresql against other databases. I'm happy to see an industry-standard benchmark result for PostgreSQL. Great work guys! -- Jonah H. Harris, Software Architect | phone: 73

[PERFORM] PostgreSQL publishes first real benchmark

2007-07-09 Thread Jignesh K. Shah
Hello all, I think this result will be useful for performance discussions of postgresql against other databases. http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/results/res2007q3/ More on Josh Berkus's blog: http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/database/soup/archives/postgresql-publishes-first-real-benchmark-17470