Re: [PERFORM] Automagic tuning

2005-01-31 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:06:27AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 03:26:12PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Preferably a whole lot of queries. All the measurement techniques I can > >> think of are going to have a great deal of noise, s

Re: [PERFORM] Automagic tuning

2005-01-31 Thread Tom Lane
"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 03:26:12PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Preferably a whole lot of queries. All the measurement techniques I can >> think of are going to have a great deal of noise, so you shouldn't >> twiddle these cost settings based on just a few

Re: [PERFORM] Automagic tuning

2005-01-31 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 03:26:12PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Josh Berkus writes: > >> I would like something that really measures values like random_page_cost > >> or cpu_tuple_cost that are hardware dependent. > >> > >> I assume such thing does not exist? > > > Nope. You gotta whip out your cal

Re: [PERFORM] Automagic tuning

2005-01-31 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus writes: >> I would like something that really measures values like random_page_cost >> or cpu_tuple_cost that are hardware dependent. >> >> I assume such thing does not exist? > Nope. You gotta whip out your calculator and run some queries. Preferably a whole lot of queries. All t

Re: [PERFORM] Automagic tuning

2005-01-31 Thread Josh Berkus
Markus, > As far as I examined, those views only count several things like fetched > rows and pages, and cache hits. > > I would like something that really measures values like random_page_cost > or cpu_tuple_cost that are hardware dependent. > > I assume such thing does not exist? Nope. You got

Re: [PERFORM] Automagic tuning

2005-01-31 Thread Markus Schaber
Hi, Cristopher, Christopher Kings-Lynne schrieb: >> Are there any tools that help with postgres/postgis performance tuning? >> >> So they measure the acutal tuple costs and cpu power, or suggest optimal >> values for the index sample counts? > > Have you turned on the stat_* settings in postgresql

Re: [PERFORM] Automagic tuning

2004-07-27 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Are there any tools that help with postgres/postgis performance tuning? So they measure the acutal tuple costs and cpu power, or suggest optimal values for the index sample counts? Have you turned on the stat_* settings in postgresql.conf and then examined the pg_stat_* system views? Chris --