Re: large database on postgres - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: large database on postgres
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Msg-id 20020614141450.S19561-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to large database on postgres  ("Tony Carter" <tony@iat.net>)
Responses Re: large database on postgres
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On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Tony Carter wrote:

> Hello,
> I have one application that I'm trying to move the db to pgsql. The db
> contains around 15 million rows of data. I'm running into 10 second delays
> when doing a simple select on an index column.
>
> My test box is Linux 1ghz Celeron  25MB Ram, 7200rpm IDE drive. I know I
> need SCSI but is there any tuning I can do to speed this up?

Well, let's do the standard info requests :)
Have you used vacuum analyze?  What's the schema, query, and explain (or
explain analyze if you're using 7.2) output for the query.


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