Re: [PERFORM] Hardware suggestions for Linux/PGSQL server

2003-12-15 Thread Jeff Bohmer
In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Andrew G. Hammond") wrote: I don't know what your budget is, but there are now 10k RPM SATA 150 drives on the market. Their price/performance is impressive. You may want to consider going with a bunch of these instead of SCSI disks (more spindle

Re: [PERFORM] Index problem or function problem?

2003-12-15 Thread Tom Lane
LIANHE SHAO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PGA=> explain select ei.expid, er.geneid, > er.sampleid, ei.annotation, si.samplename, > ei.title as exp_name, aaa.chip, > aaa.sequence_derived_from as accession_number, > aaa.gene_symbol, aaa.title as gene_function, > er.exprs, er.mas5exprs from expressi

Re: [PERFORM] TRUNCATE veeeery slow compared to DELETE in 7.4

2003-12-15 Thread Tom Lane
Hartmut Raschick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ TRUNCATE is much slower in 7.4 than in 7.3 ] After looking into this, I think this is because when Rod Taylor reimplemented TRUNCATE to make it transaction-safe, he essentially turned it into a variant of CLUSTER. It is slow because it is creating

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2003-12-15 Thread Rhaoni Chiu Pereira
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