Re: [GENERAL] indexes and tables

2011-12-19 Thread Misa Simic
December 2011 06:17 To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; David Johnston Subject: Re: [GENERAL] indexes and tables Yes i was trying to determine how to make a View work in this situation. From reading the details on PostgreSQL Views are not persistent, ie they are just a SQL query short hand rather than

Re: [GENERAL] indexes and tables

2011-12-19 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Sunday, December 18, 2011 04:00:14 PM amit sehas wrote: Yes i was trying to determine how to make a View work in this situation. From reading the details on PostgreSQL Views are not persistent, ie they are just a SQL query short hand rather than actually creating any physical entity backing

[GENERAL] indexes and tables

2011-12-18 Thread amit sehas
HI, we have a schema related question. We have 10 types of resource records. Each one of these resource records has 3 fields (attributes) (lets say f1, f2, f3)...these fields have similar meaning to the corresponding 3 fields in each resource record although they be named slightly differently in

Re: [GENERAL] indexes and tables

2011-12-18 Thread David Johnston
-Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of amit sehas Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 9:22 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] indexes and tables HI, we have a schema related question. We have

Re: [GENERAL] indexes and tables

2011-12-18 Thread David Johnston
Message- From: amit sehas [mailto:cu...@yahoo.com] Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 7:00 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; David Johnston Subject: RE: [GENERAL] indexes and tables Yes i was trying to determine how to make a View work in this situation. From reading the details on PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] indexes and tables

2011-12-18 Thread amit sehas
inheritance works in POstgres... any help is greatly appreciated... thanks --- On Sun, 12/18/11, David Johnston pol...@yahoo.com wrote: From: David Johnston pol...@yahoo.com Subject: RE: [GENERAL] indexes and tables To: 'amit sehas' cu...@yahoo.com, pgsql-general@postgresql.org Date: Sunday

[GENERAL] indexes, and tables within tables

2007-04-11 Thread Jaime Silvela
I was reading an interview with Chris Date the other day, which got me thinking about a problem I'm currently having: I have an application that keeps information in 6 denormalized tables, D1 through D6. To tie things together, all these tables have a common column, let's call it obj_id.

Re: [GENERAL] Indexes and Tables: Growth and Treatment

2004-07-21 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
On Jul 18, 2004, at 6:46 PM, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: Regular vacuum will (almost) never return your table to it's minimum size. I don't think it's unreasonable for a table that is 4MB after a vacuum full, to grow to 11MB, especially if it's a very active table. That's good to know. The

Re: Fwd: [GENERAL] Indexes and Tables: Growth and Treatment

2004-07-18 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Regular vacuum will (almost) never return your table to it's minimum size. I don't think it's unreasonable for a table that is 4MB after a vacuum full, to grow to 11MB, especially if it's a very active table. The important question is does it keep growing? Or does it reach a steady state size?