Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA379FA0EE for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:18:18 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27787-09 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:17:58 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from floppy.pyrenet.fr (floppy.pyrenet.fr [194.116.145.2]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A03259F931E for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:18:03 -0400 (AST) Received: by floppy.pyrenet.fr (Postfix, from userid 106) id 19E2430E32; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:18:02 +0100 (MET) From: Christopher Browne X-Newsgroups: pgsql.performance Subject: Re: New to PostgreSQL, performance considerations Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:15:34 -0500 Organization: cbbrowne Computing Inc Lines: 17 Message-ID: <87u002mv49.fsf@wolfe.cbbrowne.com> References: <8a0c7af10612101141n2c7727c3r2f92345753960808@mail.gmail.com> <430d92a20612101336r3de8862coe618277fccb4006a@mail.gmail.com> <8a0c7af10612101702i49b5a533v4a2300d90d9dae6b@mail.gmail.com> <20061211021847.GE16692@mathom.us> <8a0c7af10612110305u305124b2v3d63491b5f57a86b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.hub.org X-message-flag: Outlook is rather hackable, isn't it? X-Home-Page: http://www.cbbrowne.com/info/ X-Affero: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=cbbrowne User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.19 (linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FBJddIf4hbvm72RJbsWH+YFctgQ= To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200612/223 X-Sequence-Number: 22279 Oops! daniel.colchete@gmail.com ("Daniel van Ham Colchete") was seen spray-painting on a wall: > But, trust me on this one. It's worth it. No, the point of performance analysis is that you *can't* trust the people that say "trust me on this one." If you haven't got a benchmark where you can demonstrate a material and repeatable difference, then you're just some Gentoo "speed racer" making things up. -- select 'cbbrowne' || '@' || 'acm.org'; http://linuxdatabases.info/info/wp.html One last point about metaphor, poetry, etc. As an example to illustrate these capabilities in Sastric Sanskrit, consider the "bahuvrihi" construct (literally "man with a lot of rice") which is used currently in linguistics to describe references outside of compounds.