Re: [SQL] Performance - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Karl Denninger
Subject Re: [SQL] Performance
Date
Msg-id 19990309213040.A16905@Denninger.Net
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In response to Re: [SQL] Performance  (Jason Slagle <raistlin@tacorp.net>)
List pgsql-sql
Build appropriate indices for the fields you intend to discriminate on
during a SELECT.

200MB is SMALL.  I used to run searches over 10G of data in under 2 minutes
looking for RADIUS detail records.  The trick is to build the right set of
indices for what you intend to be querying on.

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> What, if anything, are you using as an index.
>
> I have 1,400,000 entries (200MB) I'm inserting into a database.  Radius
> detail files as a matter of fact.  Apart from COPY taking forever to load
> that (probably due to my several indexes), it seems the select is VERY
> slow.  Any tips?
>
> How CPU intensive is a select?
>
> Jason
>
> ---
> Jason Slagle
> Network Administrator - Toledo Internet Access - Toledo Ohio
> - raistlin@tacorp.net - jslagle@toledolink.com - WHOIS JS10172
>
> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Tim Perdue wrote:
>
> > It searches the bodies, not the subjects or authors. I don't see why anyone
> > needs to search for a particular author. But if it's requested enough, it
> > would be trivial to implement.....
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
> > To: perdue@raccoon.com <perdue@raccoon.com>
> > Cc: pgsql-sql@hub.org <pgsql-sql@hub.org>
> > Date: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 9:10 PM
> > Subject: Re: [SQL] Performance
> >
> >
> > >Thus spake Tim Perdue
> > >> Some time back I sent out a message asking if PGSQL would be able to
> > handle
> > >> my mailing list archive at http://www.geocrawler.com/ , and whether it
> > would
> > >> scale up to 100MB.
> > >
> > >Cool.  We now have a searchable archive for PostgreSQL.  However, I
> > >tried a search and it didn't seem to work.  In pgsql-hackers I entered
> > >"niladic" (I tried "Niladic" just in case) and it failed to find any
> > >messages, even though I could see a few on the list of recent messages.
> > >Any ideas?
> > >
> > >--
> > >D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@{druid|vex}.net>   |  Democracy is three wolves
> > >http://www.druid.net/darcy/                |  and a sheep voting on
> > >+1 416 424 2871     (DoD#0082)    (eNTP)   |  what's for dinner.
> >
> >
>
>

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