Re: Performance Query - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Performance Query
Date
Msg-id 200703021652.22785.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Performance Query  (Abu Mushayeed <abumushayeed@yahoo.com>)
Responses Re: Performance Query  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Abu,

>   I really do not know how to find out what the query is waiting on,
> unlike oracle db provides some of the information through its dynamic
> performance views.

Yeah, we don't have that yet.

>   Please help in understanding how I can find out what the system is
> waiting for or why is it taking the query so long.

First guess would be I/O bound.  The planner, at least, thinks you're
inserting 2 million records.  What kind of disk support do you have?


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--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco

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