RRS (http://rrs.decibel.org) might be of use in this case.

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:59:53PM -0400, Alex Turner wrote:
> Are you calculating aggregates, and if so, how are you doing it (I ask
> the question from experience of a similar application where I found
> that my aggregating PGPLSQL triggers were bogging the system down, and
> changed them so scheduled jobs instead).
> 
> Alex Turner
> NetEconomist
> 
> On 8/16/05, Ulrich Wisser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > one of our services is click counting for on line advertising. We do
> > this by importing Apache log files every five minutes. This results in a
> > lot of insert and delete statements. At the same time our customers
> > shall be able to do on line reporting.
> > 
> > We have a box with
> > Linux Fedora Core 3, Postgres 7.4.2
> > Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
> > 2 scsi 76GB disks (15.000RPM, 2ms)
> > 
> > I did put pg_xlog on another file system on other discs.
> > 
> > Still when several users are on line the reporting gets very slow.
> > Queries can take more then 2 min.
> > 
> > I need some ideas how to improve performance in some orders of
> > magnitude. I already thought of a box with the whole database on a ram
> > disc. So really any idea is welcome.
> > 
> > Ulrich
> > 
> > 
> > 
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