Re: Performance (was: The New Slashdot Setup (includes MySql server))

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Michael A(dot) Olson" <mao(at)sleepycat(dot)com>
Cc: Matthias Urlichs <smurf(at)noris(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Performance (was: The New Slashdot Setup (includes MySql server))
Date: 2000-05-19 15:25:49
Message-ID: 200005191525.LAA05077@candle.pha.pa.us
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> The advantage is that you can then index a bunch more of the system
> catalog tables, and on a bunch more attributes. That produced some
> surprising speedups.

We have indexes on all system tables that need it. The pg_index index
was done quite easily and is new for 7.0. A check for recursion and
fallback to sequential scan for pg_index table rows in the pg_index
table allows it to happen.

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