Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:37:49 +0200
From: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: A guide/tutorial to performance monitoring and tuning
Message-ID: <20080627153749.GA11421@tux>
References: <4864F7C7.3020901@celoxis.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
In-Reply-To: <4864F7C7.3020901@celoxis.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14)

Nikhil G. Daddikar <ngd@celoxis.com> schrieb:

> Hello,
>
> I have been searching on the net on how to tune and monitor performance  
> of my postgresql server but not met with success. A lot of information  
> is vague and most often then not the answer is "it depends". Can anyone  
> of you refer me a nice guide or tutorial on this?

Depends ;-)

You can log queries with an execution time more than N milliseconds via
log_min_duration. You can analyse the log with tools like pgfouine. And
you can analyse such queries with EXPLAIN ANALYSE.

But, i don't know your current problem, that's why my answer are a little
bit vague...


Andreas
-- 
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely
unintentional side effect.                              (Linus Torvalds)
"If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly."   (unknown)
Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe.              N 51.05082°, E 13.56889°