Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D1E09FA4DD for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:39:44 -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 21645-08 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:39:21 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from smtp106.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp106.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.204]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABC1A9FA4CF for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:39:39 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail 66861 invoked from network); 29 Dec 2006 17:32:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.197?) (rodtaylor@rogers.com@74.100.134.181 with plain) by smtp106.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Dec 2006 17:32:59 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: F0nY6ioVM1m.F1vToYb4sbBswM7oFyVcdXHkSsha6bl9vqNNqM7ZvxofyfFJcLog.Q_S1BLgWq7uIR89WX7LNM57q9zboN3Vq14eDSysda4atnXyLzJn7ey3wNnj64tIrR5DDh5UhZWlF7zJJOiaJxnIzQ24gpNMm4I- In-Reply-To: <1166861522.996580.25870@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com> References: <1166861522.996580.25870@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <89074B26-6DC9-4AA5-9B22-6FFC522EF3D4@gmail.com> Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Rod Taylor Subject: Re: What you would consider as heavy traffic? Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:32:39 -0500 To: "oliver@obeattie.com" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200612/531 X-Sequence-Number: 22587 Depends on what the query is. If the queries take 3 to 5 days to execute, then 1 query per day on a 4 CPU machine would be at capacity. On 23-Dec-06, at 3:12 AM, oliver@obeattie.com wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > I am having a bit of trouble with a web host, and was wondering as > what > you would class as a high level of traffic to a database (queries per > second) to an average server running postgres in a shared hosting > environment (very modern servers). > > Many Thanks in Advance, > Oliver > > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to > choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not > match