Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL vs MySQL, and FreeBSD

2007-11-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 11:06 -0500, Jonah H. Harris wrote: > On Nov 16, 2007 10:56 AM, Dave Dutcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know about that. There are times when it is the right plan: > > Agreed. IMHO, there's nothing wrong with nested-loop join as long as > it's being used proper

RE: [PERFORM] Performance problem (outer join + view + n on-strict functions)‏

2007-11-18 Thread Dean Rasheed
Ah yes, I see the problem. I see that it is also going to be a problem where I have used CASE..WHEN in the select list of views :-( Naively, couldn't the subquery be pulled up if any non-nullable columns from the right table t2 were automatically wrapped in a simple function which returned NUL

Re: [PERFORM] autovacuum: recommended?

2007-11-18 Thread gabor
hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:40:43AM +0100, Gábor Farkas wrote: we are moving one database from postgresql-7.4 to postgresql-8.2.4. any particular reason why not 8.2.5? the distribution i use only has 8.2.4 currently. gabor ---(end of

Re: [PERFORM] autovacuum: recommended?

2007-11-18 Thread Tobias Brox
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > The table was quite huge (say 20k of products along with detailed > descriptions etc.) and was completely updated and about 12x each day, i.e. > it qrew to about 12x the original size (and 11/12 of the rows were dead). > This caused a serious slowdown of the application each day

Re: [PERFORM] Performance problem (outer join + view + non-strict functions)‏

2007-11-18 Thread Tom Lane
Dean Rasheed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having performance problems running a number of queries > involving views based on non-strict functions. I have reproduced the > problem with the simple test-case below which shows how the query plan > is different depending on whether the view uses s

Re: [PERFORM] work_mem and shared_buffers

2007-11-18 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Nov 18, 2007 8:29 AM, Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 13:12 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > > Note that my best time was at around 16 Meg work_mem. This data set > > is MUCH bigger than 16 Meg, it's around 300-400 Meg. But work_mem > > optimized out at 16 Meg. B

Re: [PERFORM] work_mem and shared_buffers

2007-11-18 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 13:12 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > Note that my best time was at around 16 Meg work_mem. This data set > is MUCH bigger than 16 Meg, it's around 300-400 Meg. But work_mem > optimized out at 16 Meg. Btw, I tried it going as high as 768 Meg, > and it was still slower than 1

[PERFORM] Performance problem (outer join + view + non-strict func tions)‏

2007-11-18 Thread Dean Rasheed
Hi, I am having performance problems running a number of queries involving views based on non-strict functions. I have reproduced the problem with the simple test-case below which shows how the query plan is different depending on whether the view uses strict or non-strict functions (even though