Re: [PERFORM] slow DDL creation

2010-08-30 Thread David Fetter
create the new partitions. > > Anyone have any thoughts on how to debug this? were running postgres 8.4.4 > on > CentOS 5.5 If you're doing the partitions on demand, you could be getting deadlocks. Any reason not to pre-create a big bunch of them in advance? Cheer

[PERFORM] Re: [GENERAL] [sfpug] Statistics and PostgreSQL: Streaming Webcast tonight

2009-09-08 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:32:53AM -0700, David Fetter wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:30:21AM -0700, David Fetter wrote: > > Folks, > > > > For those of you who can't attend in person, we'll be streaming audio > > and video and having a chat for tonight&#

Re: [PERFORM] [sfpug] Statistics and PostgreSQL: Streaming Webcast tonight

2009-09-08 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:30:21AM -0700, David Fetter wrote: > Folks, > > For those of you who can't attend in person, we'll be streaming audio > and video and having a chat for tonight's SFPUG meeting on how the > planner uses statistics. > > Video: &g

[PERFORM] Statistics and PostgreSQL: Streaming Webcast tonight

2009-09-08 Thread David Fetter
Folks, For those of you who can't attend in person, we'll be streaming audio and video and having a chat for tonight's SFPUG meeting on how the planner uses statistics. Video: http://media.postgresql.org/sfpug/streaming Chat: irc://irc.freenode.net/sfpug Cheers, David. -- Dav

Re: [PERFORM] schema design question

2007-08-19 Thread David Fetter
; However, it still doesn't answer my question about the EV model > (where each attribute is given its own table). The answer to EAV modeling, is, "DON'T!" Cheers, David (who, if he were greedy, would be encouraging EAV modeling because it would cause guaranteed large consulting

Re: [PERFORM] schema design question

2007-08-19 Thread David Fetter
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 08:26:58PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 11:12:16AM -0700, David Fetter wrote: > > There's your mistake. EAV is not performant, and won't become so. > > It sort of depends. I put all the EXIF information for my im

Re: [PERFORM] schema design question

2007-08-19 Thread David Fetter
what your database will and won't do, and design your schema around that. I know it takes a little extra helping of courage, but it's worth it in the long run. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778AIM: dfetter666

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] A Better External Sort?

2005-10-05 Thread David Fetter
B/s), what other observations do you have to hand? Any ideas about what things are not performing here? Parts of the code that could bear extra scrutiny? Ideas on how to fix same in a cross-platform way? Cheers, D -- David Fetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fetter.org/ phone: +1