On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 , Arne Georg Gleditsch  wrote:

>* Robert L Mathews
>> I have also discovered several other trivially fixable issues that 
>> dramatically slow down OTRS with PostgreSQL (many of the SQL queries are 
>> made in a way that prevents PostgreSQL from using bigint indexes); I'll 
>> post more about them separately and try to provide a patch that fixes it 
>> once I'm confident I've found them all.
>
>I've posted about this before, but there was no response at the time: 
>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.otrs.user/2898 .  My suggestion is
>still to ditch the ridiculous bigint-serials.  32 bits are going to be
>enough for everyone.
>
>(Yes, these are "famous last words", but if anyone, ever, should need
>more than 32 bits (which I have a hard time imagining), they'll
>certainly be dimensioned to afford special-case hacking of the schema
>and source code for their own installation.  The sheer volume of data
>in the postgres database implied by needing bigint-serials is not
>something either hardware or software is going to cope with without
>serious herding anyway.) 

As a late followup to this, I have submitted a patch that solves this 
problem, in OTRS bugzilla:

  http://bugs.otrs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518

It makes a huge difference to OTRS performance on PostgreSQL when you 
have more than a few thousand tickets.

-- 
Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies      http://www.tigertech.net/

 "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
                                                           -- Darwin

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