Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 21:57:49 -0700
From: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Randall Lucas <rlucas@tercent.net>, josh@agliodbs.com,
	Mendola Gaetano <mendola@bigfoot.com>,
	Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>,
	pgsql-sql@postgresql.org, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org,
	pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] [SQL] Unanswered Questions WAS: An unresolved
	performance problem.
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> > I suspect that a good number of fairly simple questions aren't
> > being answered because they're either misdirected or because the
> > poster hasn't included an "answerable" question (one with
> > sufficient information to answer).
> 
> That's always been a problem, but it does seem to have been getting
> worse lately.

I hate to point this out, but "TIP 4" is getting a bit old and the 6
tips that we throw out to probably about 40K people about 1-200 times
a day have probably reached saturation.  Without looking at the
archives, I bet anyone a shot of good scotch that, it's probably
pretty infrequent that people don't kill -9 their postmasters.

Any chance we could flush out the TIPs at the bottom to include,
"VACUUM ANALYZE your database regularly," or "When reporting a
problem, include the output from EXPLAIN [query]," or "ANALYZE tables
before examining the output from an EXPLAIN [query]," or "Visit [url]
for a tutorial on (schemas|triggers|views)."

-sc

-- 
Sean Chittenden