Re: [PERFORM] Slow Query

2005-07-14 Thread Ragnar Hafstað
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 10:06 +1000, Marc McIntyre wrote: > I'm having a problem with a query that performs a sequential scan on a > table when it should be performing an index scan. The interesting thing > is, when we dumped the database on another server, it performed an index > scan on that se

Re: [PERFORM] Planner issue

2005-03-22 Thread Ragnar Hafstað
On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 14:36 -0500, Alex Turner wrote: > I will use an index 220-300, but not 200-300. > ... > Seq Scan on propmain (cost=0.00..15517.56 rows=6842 width=4) (actual > time=0.039..239.760 rows=6847 loops=1) > ... > Index Scan using propmain_listprice_i on propmain > (cost=0.00..22

Re: [PERFORM] How to read query plan

2005-03-13 Thread Ragnar Hafstað
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 16:32 +0100, Miroslav Šulc wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to PostgreSQL and query optimizations. We have recently moved > our project from MySQL to PostgreSQL and we are having performance > problem with one of our most often used queries. On MySQL the speed was > sufficien

Re: [PERFORM] Help with tuning this query

2005-03-02 Thread Ragnar Hafstað
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 13:28 -0500, Ken Egervari wrote: > >> select s.* > >> from shipment s > >> inner join carrier_code cc on s.carrier_code_id = cc.id > >> inner join carrier c on cc.carrier_id = c.id > >> inner join carrier_to_person ctp on ctp.carrier_id = c.id > >> inner join p

Re: [PERFORM] Help with tuning this query

2005-03-02 Thread Ragnar Hafstað
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 01:51 -0500, Ken Egervari wrote: > > select s.* > from shipment s > inner join carrier_code cc on s.carrier_code_id = cc.id > inner join carrier c on cc.carrier_id = c.id > inner join carrier_to_person ctp on ctp.carrier_id = c.id > inner join person p on p.i

Re: [PERFORM] PgPool changes WAS: PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL

2005-01-24 Thread Ragnar Hafstað
On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 09:52 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > [about keeping connections open in web context] > Ah, clarity problem here.I'm talking about connection pooling tools from > the client (webserver) side, such as Apache::DBI, PHP's pg_pconnect, > Jakarta's connection pools, etc. Not po

Re: [PERFORM] [SQL] OFFSET impact on Performance???

2005-01-20 Thread Ragnar Hafstað
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 19:12 +, Ragnar Hafstað wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 11:59 -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > > > The best way to do pages for is not to use offset or cursors but to use an > > index. This only works if you can enumerate all the sort orders the > > ap

Re: [PERFORM] index scan of whole table, can't see why

2005-01-20 Thread Ragnar Hafstað
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 20:37 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > Hi folks, > > Running on 7.4.2, recently vacuum analysed the three tables in > question. > > The query plan in question changes dramatically when a WHERE clause > changes from ports.broken to ports.deprecated. I don't see why. > Well,

Re: [PERFORM] index scan of whole table, can't see why

2005-01-20 Thread Ragnar Hafstað
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 21:00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Let's see if I have been paying enough attention to the SQL gurus. > The planner is making a different estimate of how many deprecated<>'' versus > how many broken <> ''. > I would try SET STATISTICS to a larger number on the ports ta

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres Optimizer is not smart enough?

2005-01-12 Thread Ragnar Hafstað
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 12:14 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote: [snip some explains] > > I have random_page_cost = 0.8 in my postgresql.conf. Setting it back to > the default (4) results in a plan using test_id1. it is not rational to have random_page_cost < 1. if you see improvement with such a setti

Re: [PERFORM] Howto Increased performace ?

2004-12-27 Thread Ragnar Hafstað
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 22:31 +0700, Amrit Angsusingh wrote: > [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > > > > These are some settings that I am planning to start with for a 4GB RAM > > dual > > opteron system with a maximum of 100 connections: > > > > > > shared_buffers 8192 (=67MB RAM) > > sort_mem 4096 (=400MB RAM

Re: [PERFORM] Speed in V8.0

2004-12-24 Thread Ragnar Hafstað
On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 00:03 +0100, Thomas Wegner wrote: > Hello, i have a problem between V7.4.3 Cygwin and > V8.0RC2 W2K. I have 2 systems: > > 1. Production Machine > - Dual P4 3000MHz > - 2 GB RAM > - W2K > - PostgreSQL 7.4.3 under Cygwin > - i connect to it over a DSL Line

Re: [PERFORM] Howto Increased performace ?

2004-12-24 Thread Ragnar Hafstað
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 16:31 +0700, Amrit Angsusingh wrote: > I used postgresql 7.3.2-1 with RH 9 on a mechine of 2 Xeon 3.0 Ghz and ram > of 4 Gb. Since 1 1/2 yr. when I started to use the database server after > optimizing the postgresql.conf everything went fine until a couple of > weeks ago , my

Re: [PERFORM] Tips for a system with _extremely_ slow IO?

2004-12-21 Thread Ragnar Hafstað
On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 23:51 -0800, Ron Mayer wrote: > Any advice for settings for extremely IO constrained systems? > > A demo I've set up for sales seems to be spending much of it's time in > disk wait states. > > > The particular system I'm working with is: > Ext3 on Debian inside Microso

Re: [PERFORM] [NOVICE] \d output to a file

2004-12-15 Thread Ragnar Hafstað
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 11:50 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > sarlav kumar wrote: > >> I would like to write the output of the \d command on all tables in a > >> database to an output file. > > > What is the OS? On any UNIX variant you can do: > > echo '\d' | psql