Re: Performance advice - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Achilleus Mantzios
Subject Re: Performance advice
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0306251422260.5452-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com
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In response to Re: Performance advice  (Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>)
Responses Re: Performance advice  (pgsql@newtopia.com)
List pgsql-performance
I agree that a "directed graph"-like performance map
would be difficult to be written or understood.

What i think would be ideal (helpful/feasible)
is some kind of documentation of the algorithms involved
in the planner/optimizer, along with some pointers
to postgresql.conf parameters where applicable.

This way we will know
- Why something is happening
- If it is the best plan
- What tuning is possible



On 25 Jun 2003, Rod Taylor wrote:

>
> > I think the biggest area of confusion for me was that the various parameters
> > are very briefly described and no context is given for their parameters.
>
> > improvements to the performance sections of the documentation would make a
> > huge difference.
>
> Agreed..  Josh has done some work recently re-arranging things to make
> them easier to find, but the content hasn't changed much.
>
> Thanks for your thoughts!
>
>

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