Re: Abnormal performance difference between Postgres and MySQL

Just start up psql and type:

show work_mem;

(You could look in the config file too I suppose.)

...Robert

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Farhan Husain <russoue(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> You still haven't answered the work_mem question, and you probably
>> want to copy the list, rather than just sending this to me.
>>
>> ...Robert
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Farhan Husain <russoue(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> >
>> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >> Can you please elaborate a bit?
>> >> >
>> >> > I thought that A0.Prop would ignore the composite index created on
>> >> > the
>> >> > columns subj and prop but this does not seem to be the case.
>> >>
>> >> Yeah, I think you're barking up the wrong tree here.  I think Tom had
>> >> the correct diagnosis - what do you get from "show work_mem"?
>> >>
>> >> What kind of machine are you running this on?  If it's a UNIX-ish
>> >> machine, what do you get from "free -m"and "uname -a"?
>> >>
>> >> ...Robert
>> >
>> > Here is the machine info:
>> >
>> > Machine: SunOS 5.10 Generic_127111-11 sun4u sparc SUNW, Sun-Fire-880
>> > Memory: 4 GB
>> > Number of physical processors: 2
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Mohammad Farhan Husain
>> > Research Assistant
>> > Department of Computer Science
>> > Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
>> > University of Texas at Dallas
>> >
>
> Did you mean the work_mem field in the config file?
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> --
> Mohammad Farhan Husain
> Research Assistant
> Department of Computer Science
> Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
> University of Texas at Dallas
>