Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 09:47:38 -0500
From: johnnnnnn <john@phaedrusdeinus.org>
To: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
Cc: 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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On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 09:57:49PM -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> 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)."

Better yet, have TIPs that are appropriate to the subscribed
list. -performance has different posting guidelines, things to try,
etc. than does -bugs, than does -sql (than does -hackers, than does
-interfaces, ...).

I don't know how feasible it is to separate them out, but i think it's
worth looking into.

-johnnnnnnnnnnn