Re: Large Database Performance suggestions - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Gavin Sherry
Subject Re: Large Database Performance suggestions
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.58.0410221326570.31567@linuxworld.com.au
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In response to Large Database Performance suggestions  (Joshua Marsh <icub3d@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-performance
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Joshua Marsh wrote:

> Recently, we have found customers who are wanting to use our service
> with data files between 100 million and 300 million records.  At that
> size, each of the three major tables will hold between 150 million and
> 700 million records.  At this size, I can't expect it to run queries
> in 10-15 seconds (what we can do with 10 million records), but would
> prefer to keep them all under a minute.

To provide any useful information, we'd need to look at your table schemas
and sample queries.

The values for sort_mem and shared_buffers will also be useful.

Are you VACUUMing and ANALYZEing? (or is the data read only?))

gavin

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