[HACKERS] Fwd: PostgreSQL Memory Management

2009-03-16 Thread Umar Farooq
Hi, Please find my original message below. This was originally posted to pgsql-general, but didn't get any response. Thanks, -Umar -- Forwarded message -- From: Umar Farooq Date: Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:39 PM Subject: PostgreSQL Memory Management To: pgsql-gene...@postgresq

[HACKERS] Performance Monitoring

2007-06-15 Thread Umar Farooq
Hello All,Recently, I have been involved in some work that requires me to monitor low level performance counters for pgsql. Specifically, when I execute a particular query I want to be able to tell how many system calls get executed on behalf of that query and time of each sys call. The idea is

Re: [HACKERS] Estimating seq_page_fetch and random_page_fetch

2007-03-08 Thread Umar Farooq Minhas
effect the cost estimates of the planner/optimizer? Again your help is appreciated. -Umar - Original Message - From: Luke Lonergan To: Gregory Stark ; Tom Lane ; Ayush Parashar Cc: Umar Farooq Minhas ; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:1

[HACKERS] Estimating seq_page_fetch and random_page_fetch

2007-03-08 Thread Umar Farooq Minhas
Hi, How can we accrately estimate the "seq_page_fetch" and "random_page_fetch" costs from outside the postgres using for example a C routine. Using a very simple program in C, I have two sets of files. I want to access one set randomly i.e. pulling data from random locations within the files. T