Re: Postgres on RAID5

    Look for the possibility that a foreign key check might not be using an
index. This would yield a seq scan for each insertion, which might be your
problem.


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:22:56 -0500, Arshavir Grigorian <ag@m-cam.com>
wrote:

> Many thanks for all the response.
>
> I guess there are a lot of things to change and tweak and I wonder what
> would be a good benchmarking sample dataset (size, contents).
>
> My tables are very large (the smallest is 7+ mil records) and take
> several days to load (if not weeks). It would be nice to have a sample
> dataset that would be large enough to mimic my large datasets, but small
> enough to load in a short priod of time. Any suggestions?
>
>
> Arshavir
>
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