From: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net>
To: Jason Slagle <raistlin@tacorp.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-sql@hub.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Performance
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:46:20 -0600
Message-ID: <19990310124620.A18684@Denninger.Net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.03.9903101336240.20770-100000@tacorp.net>
References: <19990310123506.B18608@Denninger.Net>
<Pine.LNX.4.03.9903101336240.20770-100000@tacorp.net>
That's a waste - a vacuum on a table with no deletes having been executed
and no indices will go through everything and do absolutely nothing :-)
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Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) http://www.mcs.net/~karl
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On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 01:39:19PM -0500, Jason Slagle wrote:
> Haven't created any yet, as I have not yet determined what I want to index
> on. I just created the database and bulk loaded 211 megs of : delimited
> data, generating a 350 meg file in the data dir. It has been vacuuming
> for 45 mins or so now... Prob needs more horsepower :D
>
> Jason
>
> ---
> Jason Slagle
> Network Administrator - Toledo Internet Access - Toledo Ohio
> - raistlin@tacorp.net - jslagle@toledolink.com - WHOIS JS10172
>
> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Karl Denninger wrote:
>
> > Depends on the indices that have to be gone through. It can take quite a
> > while.
> >
> > --
> > --
> > Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) http://www.mcs.net/~karl
> > I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give
> > up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 01:27:20PM -0500, Jason Slagle wrote:
> > > And how long is normal for Vacuum analyze to take on bout 350 megs of
> > > DATA?
> > >
> > > Jason
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Jason Slagle
> > > Network Administrator - Toledo Internet Access - Toledo Ohio
> > > - raistlin@tacorp.net - jslagle@toledolink.com - WHOIS JS10172
> > >
> > > On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Tom Lane wrote:
> > >
> > > > "Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy@lan2wan.com> writes:
> > > > >> I have 1,400,000 entries (200MB) I'm inserting into a database. Radius
> > > > >> detail files as a matter of fact. Apart from COPY taking forever to load
> > > > >> that (probably due to my several indexes), it seems the select is VERY
> > > > >> slow. Any tips?
> > > >
> > > > > I found that if you create an index before doing a bulk COPY, yes, it does
> > > > > take forever to load, and the select is slow. What I did was drop the
> > > > > indices built from the COPY and rebuild them. Speeded the selects up
> > > > > significantly. So now I don't build any indices until after I load my
> > > > > huge databases in.
> > > >
> > > > Not building the indexes until you've done the bulk load is good advice;
> > > > it does seem a lot faster to build an index on an already-loaded table
> > > > than to construct it piecemeal during the COPY. However, either way
> > > > should result in the same index, so I don't see why it'd affect the
> > > > speed of a subsequent SELECT. Did you remember to do VACUUM ANALYZE
> > > > both times? The system is likely to ignore the index until you have
> > > > vacuumed the table.
> > > >
> > > > In short, best bulk load procedure is
> > > >
> > > > CREATE TABLE ...
> > > > COPY ...
> > > > CREATE INDEX(es) on table
> > > > Repeat as needed for all tables being bulk-loaded
> > > > VACUUM ANALYZE
> > > >
> > > > BTW, if you use pg_dump to dump and reload a big database, pg_dump
> > > > knows about the create-indexes-last trick. But it doesn't do a VACUUM
> > > > for you; you have to do that by hand after running the reload script,
> > > > or your database will be slow.
> > > >
> > > > regards, tom lane
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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