X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DA999FB223 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 07:30:20 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26459-08 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 07:30:14 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from kenobi.snowman.net (kenobi.snowman.net [70.84.9.186]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D3E39FB2EA for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 07:30:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: by kenobi.snowman.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 39BA61400C; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 05:30:13 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 06:30:12 -0400 From: Stephen Frost To: David Lang Cc: Alex Turner , Alvaro Nunes Melo , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Hardware upgraded but performance still ain't good enough Message-ID: <20060809103012.GN20016@kenobi.snowman.net> Mail-Followup-To: David Lang , Alex Turner , Alvaro Nunes Melo , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org References: <44D7B958.6030004@atua.com.br> <33c6269f0608072333o67ab6adei29095091718901dc@mail.gmail.com> <20060808120529.GL20016@kenobi.snowman.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CRtNIOhYBPVBLkTX" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Info: http://www.snowman.net X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.16-2-vserver-686 (i686) X-Uptime: 06:24:56 up 45 days, 21 min, 17 users, load average: 0.88, 0.63, 0.70 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.201 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200608/138 X-Sequence-Number: 20323 --CRtNIOhYBPVBLkTX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * David Lang (david@lang.hm) wrote: > there's a huge difference between 'works on debian' and 'supported on=20 > debian'. I do use debian extensivly, (along with slackware on my personal= =20 > machines), so i am comfortable getting things to work. but 'supported'=20 > means that when you run into a problem you can call for help without bein= g=20 > told 'sorry, switch distros, then call us back'. Have you ever actually had that happen? I havn't and I've called support for a number of different issues for various commercial software. In the end it might boil down to some distribution-specific issue that they're not willing to fix but honestly that's pretty rare. > even many of the companies that offer support for postgres have this=20 > problem. the explination is always that they can't test every distro out= =20 > there so they pick a few and support those (this is one of the reasons wh= y=20 My experience has been that unless it's pretty clearly some distro-specific issue (which doesn't happen all that often, but it's good to be familiar with what would probably be a distro-specific issue and what wouldn't), the support folks are willing to help debug it. Thanks, Stephen --CRtNIOhYBPVBLkTX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE2bk0rzgMPqB3kigRAtKNAJ9Lf6tIlP4YxNlZykvBdpS+az/4wACeJKZW KOTd91al0yeQqzXvp6vs7K8= =Pe+f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CRtNIOhYBPVBLkTX--