Re: It takes a long time for pgAdmin to retrieve database schema details

Hi Guillaume,
Have you received our DDL database dump?

Xiaobo.Gu

-----Original Message-----
From: Guillaume Lelarge [mailto:guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 5:37 AM
To: 顾小波
Cc: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] It takes a long time for pgAdmin to retrieve database schema details

Le 14/07/2010 17:48, 顾小波 a écrit :
> [...]
> we use gpAdminIII 1.10.3 with Greeenplum database 3.3.5.0 on Solaris X64
> 10u7, one of our databases has 36 schemas, one of which has 716 tables,
> and the whole database size is about 4~5T.

Would it be possible to get a copy of your schema? (not the data of
course, but the objects definition) The idea is to restore them on my
computer, and fix the performance issue you have.

> When users open pgAdminIII
> and click the database node under the Databases node it takes a long
> time for pgAdminIII to “restoring previous environment….”, when users
> click one of the schemas, it also takes a long time for pgAdminIII to
> “retrieving Schema details…”, and the whole Interface is haling, I think
> this is due to this operation is single threaded. Another suggestion is
> can you improve gpAdmin to retrieve as little detail information as
> possible, just to retrieve it when user really need it, especially for
> high cost operations such as select count(*) from table.
>

Yes, it's single threaded. There's not a lot of count(*) uses, mainly on
system catalogs. There's one on the data (which would cause you bad
issues on a 4TB database), but it's only launched if you have bad
statistics.

Regards.

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