Re: Performance question 83 GB Table 150 million rows, distinct select

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Samuel Gendler <sgendler(at)ideasculptor(dot)com>
Cc: Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Performance question 83 GB Table 150 million rows, distinct select
Date: 2011-11-17 01:58:50
Message-ID: CAOR=d=2A4jNU+O5Y=aKLaJ37YXAKY7ZnEdw+93gYgLcn7sirAQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Samuel Gendler
<sgendler(at)ideasculptor(dot)com> wrote:
> Could you elaborate on this a bit, or point me at some docs?  I manage a
> 600GB db which does almost nothing but aggregates on partitioned tables -
> the largest of which has approx 600 million rows across all partitions.
>  grouping in the aggregates tends to be on the partition column and rarely,
> if ever, would a group cross multiple partitions. We're on 9.0 and could
> definitely use some performance gains.

It's covered in the release notes for 9.1:

http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release-9-1.html

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