[PERFORM] db performance/design question

2007-09-12 Thread Matt Chambers
I'm designing a system that will be doing over a million inserts/deletes on a single table every hour. Rather than using a single table, it is possible for me to partition the data into multiple tables if I wanted to, which would be nice because I can just truncate them when I don't need the

[PERFORM] pgsql upgrade

2006-12-04 Thread Matt Chambers
Hi all, I've run into an issue with a Pg 7.4.6 to 8.1.5 upgrade along with hardware upgrade. I moved the database from a 2x 3.0ghz Xeon (512kb w/HT) to a 2x Opteron 250. The database is in memory on a tmpfs partition. (the application can rebuild the db during total system failure) When I fi