I can't believe y'all are burning cycles on this. :P
On Mar 9, 2006, at 8:04 AM, Christopher Browne wrote:
> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, greg@turnstep.com
> ("Greg Sabino Mullane") wrote:
>> I kicked this off last night before bed. It ran much quicker than
>> I thought, due to that 27 hour estimate.
>>
>> Total time: 23 minutes 29 seconds :)
>
> I'm jealous. I've got the very same thing running on some Supposedly
> Pretty Fast Hardware, and it's cruising towards 31 minutes plus a few
> seconds.
>
> While it's running, the time estimate is...
>
> select (now() - '2006-03-09 13:47:49') * 1000000 / (select count(*)
> from pg_class where relkind='r' and relname ~ 'foo');
>
> That pretty quickly converged to 31:0?...
>
>> Maybe I'll see just how far PG *can* go next. Time to make a
>> PlanetPG post, at any rate.
>
> Another interesting approach to it would be to break this into several
> streams.
>
> There ought to be some parallelism to be gained, on systems with
> multiple disks and CPUs, by having 1..100000 go in parallel to 100001
> to 200000, and so forth, for (oh, say) 10 streams. Perhaps it's
> irrelevant parallelism; knowing that it helps/hurts would be nice...
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