Re: Question about access to db server

Good Evening,

Before tuning the hardware settings I usually execute an EXPLAIN to see the
execution path Postgres uses. A good start to understanding the EXPLAIN
functionality is here http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Using_EXPLAIN .
Since you're using pgAdmin this is a better tutorial
http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/index.php?/archives/27-Reading-PgAdmin-Graphical-Explain-Plans.html.
Sometimes using an join instead of a subselect or indexing greatly
improves a query even before trying to optimize the default postgres
settings.

Thanks
-Mark

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Cliff Pratt <enkiduonthenet(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 7:01 AM, T.T Le <lotus(dot)signals(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > We are running PostgresPlus 8.4AS on a linux system. I don't need to edit
> > the config files or to restart the clusters (the DBA will do that for
> us). I
> > only need access to help troubleshoot performance issues with the
> databases.
> > My question is: would pgAdmin be sufficient for what i need to do? From
> what
> > I understand, i can check the status of the database, view the postgresql
> > logs, the postgresql.conf and pg_hba.conf.
> >
> > I appreciate your input for my question.
> >
> > TIA.
> I didn't know what PostgresPlus was so I looked it up. Firstly it has
> tools for tuning PostgreSQL and secondly, it is a tools package for
> the Enterprise version of PostgreSQL, so presumably you can get the
> support that you presumably paid for.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cliff
>
>
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