Re: [SQL] Unanswered Questions WAS: An unresolved performance

On Thu, 8 May 2003, johnnnnnn wrote:

> On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 09:57:49PM -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > I hate to point this out, but "TIP 4" is getting a bit old and the 6
> > tips that we throw out to probably about 40K people about 1-200
> > times a day have probably reached saturation.  Without looking at
> > the archives, I bet anyone a shot of good scotch that, it's probably
> > pretty infrequent that people don't kill -9 their postmasters.
> >
> > Any chance we could flush out the TIPs at the bottom to include,
> > "VACUUM ANALYZE your database regularly," or "When reporting a
> > problem, include the output from EXPLAIN [query]," or "ANALYZE
> > tables before examining the output from an EXPLAIN [query]," or
> > "Visit [url] for a tutorial on (schemas|triggers|views)."
>
> Better yet, have TIPs that are appropriate to the subscribed
> list. -performance has different posting guidelines, things to try,
> etc. than does -bugs, than does -sql (than does -hackers, than does
> -interfaces, ...).
>
> I don't know how feasible it is to separate them out, but i think it's
> worth looking into.

Agreed.

Also, some tips might well cross over, like say, vacuum and analyze
regularly.  Hmmm.  Sounds like a job for a relational database :-)