Re: Comparative performance - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Dennis Bjorklund
Subject Re: Comparative performance
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0509290733420.28238-100000@zigo.dhs.org
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In response to Comparative performance  (Joe <svn@freedomcircle.net>)
List pgsql-performance
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Joe wrote:

> Before I post the EXPLAIN and the table schema I'd appreciate
> confirmation that this list is the appropriate forum.

It is and and useful things to show are

 * the slow query
 * EXPLAIN ANALYZE of the query
 * the output of \d for each table involved in the query
 * the output of SHOW ALL;
 * The amount of memory the machine have

The settings that are the most important to tune in postgresql.conf for
performance is in my opinion; shared_buffers, effective_cache_size and
(to a lesser extent) work_mem.

--
/Dennis Björklund


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