Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-23 Thread Richard Welty
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:52:39 -0400 Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But yes, doing it via this mailing list is probably the cheapest option. yes, he just needs to decide how big a hurry he's in. also, if he does decide to hire a consultant, i suggest he pop over to pgsql-jobs and ask there

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-23 Thread Rod Taylor
> 2) You can hire a PG database expert.This will be much faster, but cost > you a lot of money. I wouldn't exactly say "a lot of money". Lots of consulters out there are willing to put in a weeks worth of effort, on site, for significantly less than a support contract with most commercial DB

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-23 Thread Josh Berkus
Bill, > Ok, so maybe someone on this group will have a better idea. We have a > database of financial information, and this has literally millions of > entries. I have installed indicies, but for the rather computationally > demanding processes we like to use, like a select query to find the > c

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-23 Thread Merlin Moncure
Bill wrote: > Ok, so maybe someone on this group will have a better idea. We have a > database of financial information, and this has literally millions of > entries. I have installed indicies, but for the rather computationally > demanding processes we like to use, like a select query to find th

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-23 Thread Andrew Hammond
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill wrote: | Ok, so maybe someone on this group will have a better idea. We have a | database of financial information, and this has literally millions of | entries. I have installed indicies, but for the rather computationally | demanding processes

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-22 Thread Joe Conway
Bill wrote: Ok, so maybe someone on this group will have a better idea. We have a database of financial information, and this has literally millions of entries. I have installed indicies, but for the rather computationally demanding processes we like to use, like a select query to find the commod

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-22 Thread Matthew Nuzum
-performance- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 1:31 PM > To: Josh Berkus > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration > > Ok, so maybe someone on this group will have a better idea. We have a > database

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-22 Thread Richard Welty
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:31:15 -0500 Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed indicies, but are there any statistics? vacuum analyze is your friend > but for the rather computationally > demanding processes we like to use, like a select query to find the > commodity with the highest month

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-22 Thread jason.servetar
Message - From: "Josh Berkus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration > Bill, > > > Any ideas of how I can cluster

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 12:31:15 -0500, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, so maybe someone on this group will have a better idea. We have a > database of financial information, and this has literally millions of > entries. I have installed indicies, but for the rather computationally > dema

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-22 Thread Bill
ROTECTED]> To: "Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration > Bill, > > > Any ideas of how I can cluster my database (around 800 GB > > in size so even par

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql and openmosix migration

2004-06-22 Thread Josh Berkus
Bill, > Any ideas of how I can cluster my database (around 800 GB > in size so even partial replication is not really practical)? Um, raise $150,000 to pay for a clustering implementation? Various techniques of "shared memory clustering" have been tried with PostgreSQL, and none work.Neit