[PERFORM] Database tuning at Duke

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Smith
There's two papers published recently at Duke that I just found, both of which use PostgreSQL as part of their research: Automated SQL Tuning through Trial and (Sometimes) Error: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~shivnath/papers/dbtest09z.pdf Tuning Database Configuration Parameters with iTuned: http:

Re: [PERFORM] database tuning

2007-12-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:27:39PM +1200, kelvan wrote: I have also learnt and also Richard pointed out just not in so many words the difference in support from a open source community compared to a non open source company is that the people who give support in open source

Re: [PERFORM] database tuning

2007-12-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:27:39PM +1200, kelvan wrote: I have also learnt and also Richard pointed out just not in so many words the difference in support from a open source community compared to a non open source company is that the people who give support in open source are opinionated rathe

Re: [PERFORM] database tuning

2007-12-11 Thread Greg Smith
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, kelvan wrote: my original question is what are the overheads for postgres but obviously no one knows or no one knows where a webpage containing this information is -_- In addition to the documentation links people have already suggested, I'd also suggest http://andreas.s

Re: [PERFORM] database tuning

2007-12-11 Thread kelvan
Ok thx I have got it thx to David and Scott for the links I now know why I couldn't find them as I was looking for blocks rather than page damn synonyms and to Eric thx for the criticism but yea I failed English so I know my punctuation is bad unless I concentrate and I am to busy to do that

Re: [PERFORM] database tuning

2007-12-11 Thread Richard Huxton
kelvan wrote: you know what you lot have left my original question this server is a temporary piece of shit my original question is what are the overheads for postgres but obviously no one knows or no one knows where a webpage containing this information is -_- overhead information i would t

Re: [PERFORM] database tuning

2007-12-11 Thread Erik Jones
On Dec 11, 2007, at 5:18 PM, kelvan wrote: you know what you lot have left my original question this server is a temporary piece of shit my original question is what are the overheads for postgres but obviously no one knows or no one knows where a webpage containing this information is -_-

Re: [PERFORM] database tuning

2007-12-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/storage.html On Dec 11, 2007 5:18 PM, kelvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you know what you lot have left my original question this server is a > temporary piece of shit > > my original question is what are the overheads for postgres but obviously no > one

Re: [PERFORM] database tuning

2007-12-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
kelvan wrote: I wonder where did all the punctuation symbols on your keyboard went. Your email is amazingly hard to read. > overhead information i would to know is row overheads column overheads and > header overheads for blocks and anything else i have missed As for storage overhead, see here:

Re: [PERFORM] database tuning

2007-12-11 Thread kelvan
you know what you lot have left my original question this server is a temporary piece of shit my original question is what are the overheads for postgres but obviously no one knows or no one knows where a webpage containing this information is -_- overhead information i would to know is row ove

Re: [PERFORM] database tuning

2007-12-10 Thread Greg Smith
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, kelvan wrote: i am going to blow up that mac and burn postgres as i need a more powerful dbms one that can handle multi threading. Someone pointed this out already, but I'll repeat: PostgreSQL has a multi-process architecture that's fully capable of taking advantage of

Fwd: Re: [PERFORM] database tuning

2007-12-10 Thread Kevin Grittner
>>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 6:15 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Grittner wrote: > with 6 MB of RAM Obviously a typo -- that should read 6 GB of RAM. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives?

Re: [PERFORM] database tuning

2007-12-10 Thread Kevin Grittner
>>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 6:29 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "kelvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i need a more powerful dbms one that can > handle multi threading. If you're looking to handle a lot of concurrent users, PostgreSQL has the power. The threading issues really only imp

Re: [PERFORM] database tuning

2007-12-10 Thread kelvan
""Scott Marlowe"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Dec 7, 2007 1:13 PM, kelvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> ok heres the thing i dont have a choice i just have to work with whats >> given >> whether it is good or not why i need these overheads is for block >> c

Re: [PERFORM] database tuning

2007-12-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Dec 7, 2007 1:13 PM, kelvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok heres the thing i dont have a choice i just have to work with whats given > whether it is good or not why i need these overheads is for block > calculations and and tablespace calculations i have to keep everything in a > very very sma

Re: [PERFORM] database tuning

2007-12-10 Thread Richard Huxton
kelvan wrote: ok heres the thing i dont have a choice i just have to work with whats given Ah well, it happens to all of us. whether it is good or not why i need these overheads is for block calculations and and tablespace calculations i have to keep everything in a very very small area on t

Re: [PERFORM] database tuning

2007-12-07 Thread kelvan
"Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 12:45 +1200, kelvan wrote: > >> hi i need to know all the database overhead sizes and block header sizes >> etc >> etc as I have a very complex database to build and it needs to be speed >> tuned be

Re: [PERFORM] database tuning

2007-12-07 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 12:45 +1200, kelvan wrote: > hi i need to know all the database overhead sizes and block header sizes etc > etc as I have a very complex database to build and it needs to be speed > tuned beyond reckoning If your need-for-speed is so high, I would suggest using 8.3 or at l

Re: [PERFORM] database tuning

2007-12-07 Thread Richard Huxton
kelvan wrote: hi i need to know all the database overhead sizes and block header sizes etc etc as I have a very complex database to build and it needs to be speed tuned beyond reckoning [snip] I am using postgres 8.1 if anyone can post links to pages containing over head information and inde

[PERFORM] database tuning

2007-12-06 Thread kelvan
hi i need to know all the database overhead sizes and block header sizes etc etc as I have a very complex database to build and it needs to be speed tuned beyond reckoning I have gathered some relevant information form the documentation such as all the data type sizes and the RM block informa