On 23/02/2012, at 7:35 PM, Marti Raudsepp wrote: > If you have lots of very simple queries, then usually much of the > overhead is in query planning. There are a few tricks to dumb down the > planner to make it faster -- although that may come at the cost of > slowing down execution. > > * If your queries use joins at all, you can reduce planning overhead > by setting join_collapse_limit=1 and from_collapse_limit=1 or some > other low number. > * Set default_statistics_target=5 or another low number and run > ANALYZE on the whole database. > * Set enable_bitmapscan=off, enable_material=off, > enable_mergejoin=off, enable_hashjoin=off -- this will prevent the > planner for trying certain kinds of plans in the first place. > > Just for the heck of it, you might gain a bit by setting > track_activities=off, update_process_title=off Thanks a lot Marti. After I've applied these settings I couldn't see major improvement over fsync=off. It was pretty much within the error margin. But you're right that most of the queries are simple and I hope this will work a little bit faster on small runs (like a single test suite). Will definitely keep an eye on these settings. So far fsync=off is the best I could get. Thanks one more time for the help. Cheers. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
