Re: [PERFORM] Best OS for Postgres 8.2

2007-05-07 Thread Ian Li
In #postgresql on freenode, somebody ever mentioned that ZFS from Solaris helps a lot to the performance of pgsql, so dose anyone have information about that? Steve Atkins wrote: On May 7, 2007, at 2:55 PM, David Levy wrote: Hi, I am about to order a new server for my Postgres cluster. I w

Re: [PERFORM] Best OS for Postgres 8.2

2007-05-08 Thread Ian Li
I am back with the chatlog and seem it's the Transparent compression that helps a lot, very interesting... here is the log of #postgresql on Apr. 21th around 13:20 GMT (snipped) : why is that, when hard disk i/o is my bottleneck ? well i have 10 disks in a raid1+0 config it's s

Re: [PERFORM] Autovacuum running out of memory

2007-10-16 Thread Ian Li
How about shared memory related settings of your kernel? ie. kernel.shmall, kernel.shmmax . Have a check with sysctl, maybe they should be raised: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/kernel-resources.html Regards Jason Lustig wrote: I ran "ulimit -a" for the postgres user, and her

Re: [PERFORM] two queryes in a single tablescan

2007-10-17 Thread Ian Li
I remember when I was using SQL server we did like like that: SELECT count(CASE WHEN A THEN 1 END) AS cnt_a, count(CASE WHEN B THEN 1 END) AS cnt_b FROM tab WHERE C; I did a little test with pg_bench data, also works in PostgreSQL: test=# select count(*) from history where tid = 1; count ---