From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>
Cc: Postgresql Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [SQL] OFFSET impact on Performance???
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:04:23 +0000
Message-ID: <41EFE497.2070607@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41EFE123.9020209@cheapcomplexdevices.com>
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Ron Mayer wrote:
> Richard Huxton wrote:
>
>>
>> If you've got a web-application then you'll probably want to insert
>> the results into a cache table for later use.
>>
>
> If I have quite a bit of activity like this (people selecting 10000 out
> of a few million rows and paging through them in a web browser), would
> it be good to have a single table with a userid column shared by all
> users, or a separate table for each user that can be truncated/dropped?
>
> I started out with one table; but with people doing 10s of thousand
> of inserts and deletes per session, I had a pretty hard time figuring
> out a reasonable vacuum strategy.
As often as you can, and make sure your config allocates enough
free-space-map for them. Unless, of course, you end up I/O saturated.
> Eventually I started doing a whole bunch of create table tmp_XXXX
> tables where XXXX is a userid; and a script to drop these tables - but
> that's quite ugly in a different way.
>
> With 8.0 I guess I'll try the single table again - perhaps what I
> want may be to always have a I/O throttled vacuum running... hmm.
Well, there have been some tweaks, but I don't know if they'll help in
this case.
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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