On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 10:45, Lincoln Yeoh wrote: > I'm not an expert. > > Turn off tab completion? It's probably scanning through all the possible > table names and the algorithm used is probably not designed for that > number. And with 42000 tables, tab completion may not be that helpful. > > Don't use ext2/ext3? There are other filesystems on Linux which perform > decently with thousands of files in a directory. AFAIK ext2 and ext3 don't > allow you to have single large files anyway - also not sure if postgresql > BLOBs will hit those filesystem limits or postgresql splits BLOBs or hits > its own limits first - I'd just store multi-GB stuff out of the DB. Actually, while ext2/3 used to be pretty pokey with a large number of files, the latest version seems quite comfortable handling tens of thousands with a fairly good response time. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match