[PERFORM] Large index scan perfomance and indexCorrelation (PG 8.1.4 Win32)

2006-06-28 Thread Andrew Sagulin
Wednesday, June 28, 2006, 2:04:17 Simon Riggs, you wrote: > That part is sensible. The min_IO_cost is when the access is sequential, > which by definition has a cost of 1.0. In general - yes. But we talk about the min_IO_cost of the index scan which is barely sequential. Correct me if I'm wrong:

[PERFORM] Large index scan perfomance and indexCorrelation (PG 8.1.4 Win32)

2006-06-27 Thread Andrew Sagulin
Hello all I have a big amount of phone calls data (280M records, 25 Gbytes).The best decision for this task is partitioning and I use it now. But at first I tried put all data in a single table indexed by call date&time. Because of nature of the data the records clustered by date and near ordered