Re: Really really slow select count(*)

From: felix <crucialfelix(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Pierre C <lists(at)peufeu(dot)com>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, sthomas(at)peak6(dot)com, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Really really slow select count(*)
Date: 2011-02-07 01:55:57
Message-ID: AANLkTimONxqmK=Tf_qooO5=PKEEDMptZ6=rZ7ASmziX+@mail.gmail.com
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yeah, it already uses memcached with db save. nothing important in session
anyway

the session table is not the issue

and I never clustered that one or ever will

thanks for the tip, also the other one about HOT

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Pierre C <lists(at)peufeu(dot)com> wrote:

>
> I have clustered that table, its still unbelievably slow.
>>>
>>
>> Did you actually delete the old entries before clustering it? if it's
>> still got 4G of old sessions or whatever in it, clustering ain't gonna
>> help.
>>
>
> Also, IMHO it is a lot better to store sessions in something like
> memcached, rather than imposing this rather large load on the main
> database...
>
> PS : if your site has been down for 6 hours, you can TRUNCATE your sessions
> table...
>

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