Hi. Further to my bafflement with the "count(*)" queries as described
in this thread:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2009-01/msg00804.php
It seems that whenever this question has come up, Postgresql comes up
very short in terms of "count(*)" functions.
The performance is always slow, because of the planner's need to guess
and such. I don't fully understand how the statistics work (and the
explanation on the PG website is way too geeky) but he columns I work
with already have a stat level of 100. Not helping at all.
We are now considering a web based logging functionality for users of
our website. This means the table could be heavily INSERTed into. We
get about 10 million hits a day, and I'm guessing that we will have to
keep this data around for a while.
My question: with that kind of volume and the underlying aggregation
functions (by product id, dates, possibly IP addresses or at least
countries of origin..) will PG ever be a good choice? Or should I be
looking at some other kind of tools? I wonder if OLAP tools would be
overkill for something that needs to look like a barebones version of
google analytics limited to our site..
Appreciate any thoughts. If possible I would prefer to tone down any
requests for MySQL and such!
Thanks!
