Re: PostgreSQL 8.4 performance tuning questions

Hey guyz, thanks for help. I solved the problems. The reason was in
bad query, that i've accidentally committed right after upgrading.
PostgreSQL 8.4 is perfect! Analyze works like a charm, and MUCH better
than in 8.3.

2009/7/31 Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Scott Carey <scott(at)richrelevance(dot)com> writes:
>>> Gzip does have some quirky performance behavior depending on the
>>> chunk size of data you stream into it.
>>
>> Can you enlarge on that comment?  I'm not sure that pg_dump is aware
>> that there's anything to worry about there.
>
> If the library used here is anything like the native library used by
> Java, it'd be worth putting a buffer layer ahead of the calls to gzip,
> so it isn't dealing with each individual value as a separate call.  I
> seem to remember running into that issue in Java, where throwing a
> BufferedOutputStream in there fixed the performance issue.
>
> -Kevin
>
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