[PERFORM] Getting Slow

2007-06-07 Thread Joe Lester
About six months ago, our normally fast postgres server started having performance issues. Queries that should have been instant were taking up to 20 seconds to complete (like selects on the primary key of a table). Running the same query 4 times in a row would yield dramatically different

Re: [PERFORM] Index Being Ignored?

2006-06-30 Thread Joe Lester
great! Thanks Markus and Tom! On Jun 30, 2006, at 10:29 AM, Markus Schaber wrote: Hi, Joe, Joe Lester wrote: Aggregate (cost=22695.28..22695.28 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=2205.688..2205.724 rows=1 loops=1) -> Seq Scan on purchase_order_items (cost=0.00..21978.08 rows=286882 wi

[PERFORM] Index Being Ignored?

2006-06-30 Thread Joe Lester
I have a index question. My table has 800K rows and I a doing a basic query on an indexed integer field which takes over 2 seconds to complete because it's ignoring the index for some reason. Any ideas as to why it's ignoring the index? I'm using postgres 8.0.2.SELECT count(*) FROM purchase_order_i

Re: [PERFORM] shared_buffers Question

2004-08-17 Thread Joe Lester
#x27;t being vacuumed. On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 10:25, Joe Lester wrote: > I've been running a postgres server on a Mac (10.3, 512MB RAM) with 200 > clients connecting for about 2 months without a crash. However just > yesterday the database and all the clients hung. When I looked at th