Re: Slow access with PG 7.0

Thanks for your help
pg_exec($dbh, "set enable_seqscan off;");
seems resolve my problem...

I look at the docs, but I didn't understand very well what is the use of
this variable ?

thank you !

jean-arthur

At 01:25 06/12/00 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>* Jean-Arthur Silve <jeanarthur(at)eurovox(dot)fr> [001206 01:10] wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a problem :
> > it seems that when a script access to a db for a SELECT (or table i don't
> > really know), postgres locks the db or table and other scripts cannot
> > access to this DB concurrently.
> > So it's very very slow when this script (a PHP4 script) is called by
> > several users...
> > it's so slow that even keyboard is slow !
> >
> > My tables are not so large (about 500 records)
> >
> > I don't use "Begin" and "Commit"
> >
> > PG Version is 7.0, with SCSI HD with Adaptec 2940U2W card , on PIII 500 .
> >
> > I used to utilize these same scripts on another server with postgres 6.4
> > (on Celeron 300), and there was no such problem, it was really faster !!
>
>1) when was the last time you ran "vacuum verbose analyze <tablename>" ?
>2) do you have indecies on this table?
>3) have you tried this: pg_exec($dbh, "set enable seqscan off;"); (*)
>4) how can you expect help without going into a bit more detail about
> how your table is set up and what the actuall query is?
>
>(*) not sure on the syntax for that one, check the manual.
>
>--
>-Alfred Perlstein - [bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net|alfred(at)freebsd(dot)org]
>"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."

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