Re: large database on postgres

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Tony Carter <tony(at)iat(dot)net>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: large database on postgres
Date: 2002-06-14 21:17:05
Message-ID: 20020614141450.S19561-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Tony Carter wrote:

> Hello,
> I have one application that I'm trying to move the db to pgsql. The db
> contains around 15 million rows of data. I'm running into 10 second delays
> when doing a simple select on an index column.
>
> My test box is Linux 1ghz Celeron 25MB Ram, 7200rpm IDE drive. I know I
> need SCSI but is there any tuning I can do to speed this up?

Well, let's do the standard info requests :)
Have you used vacuum analyze? What's the schema, query, and explain (or
explain analyze if you're using 7.2) output for the query.

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