Re: SQL Performance Guidelines

On Jan 26, 2005, at 10:27, Van Ingen, Lane wrote:

> Clarification: I am talking about SQL coding practices in Postgres
> (how to write queries for best
> results), not  tuning-related considerations (although that would be
> welcomed too).

    Your question is a bit too vague.  At this point in your development,
all that really can be said is to understand relational database
concepts in general, and use explain a lot when developing queries.
(Oh, and don't forget to analyze before asking specific questions).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-performance-owner@postgresql.org on behalf of Van Ingen,
> Lane
> Sent: Wed 1/26/2005 11:44 AM
> To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
> Cc:
> Subject: [PERFORM] SQL Performance Guidelines
>
> Does anybody know where I can lay my hands on some guidelines to get
> best SQL performance
> out of PostgreSQL? We are about to get into a project that will be new
> from the ground up (and\we are using Postgres for the first time).
> Would like to share some guidelines with developers on best practices
> in Postgres? Thanks for your help.
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