From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: New to PostgreSQL
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 11:08:17 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <200611021013.25097.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
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<200611021013.25097.achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:13:24AM +0300, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
>
> I think, apart from postgresql you gotta get familiar with the linux/*bsd/unix
> concepts as well, as sometimes performance has to do with OS tuning too.
Let me echo that, because it's extremely important: when I was in
charge of hiring people to work on our databases, I was very
concerned not to get the sort of people who felt that the system was
"the sysadmin's problem". You _cannot_ treat the operating system as
not your problem when addressing performance questions in PostgreSQL.
This is a very unfamiliar situation to most Oracle and some DB2
administrators, in my experience. The good ones, of course, have no
problem catching on; the bad ones never deserved the name DBA anyway
;-)
A
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