From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Frank Wiles <frank@wiles.org>
Cc: rjpeace@earthlink.net
Cc: yves.vindevogel@implements.be
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Some help on buffers and other performance tricks
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 21:43:33 -0300
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In-Reply-To: <20051109175332.3edbd5fc.frank@wiles.org>
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Frank Wiles wrote:
> Obviously there are systems/datasets/quantities where this won't
> always work out best, but for the majority of systems out there
> complicating your schema, maxing your hardware, and THEN tuning
> is IMHO the wrong approach.
I wasn't suggesting to complicate the schema -- I was actually thinking
in systems where some queries are not using indexes, some queries are
plain wrong, etc. Buying a very expensive RAID and then noticing that
you just needed to create an index, is going to make somebody feel at
least somewhat stupid.
--
Alvaro Herrera Valdivia, Chile ICBM: S 39º 49' 17.7", W 73º 14' 26.8"
Y una voz del caos me habló y me dijo
"Sonríe y sé feliz, podría ser peor".
Y sonreí. Y fui feliz.
Y fue peor.
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