On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Chris <dmagick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Good idea. But I wonder whether calling the trigger each insert will loose > > any performance. > > > > It's going to affect things slightly but whether it'll be noticable only > you can answer by testing. > > Another option I sometimes see is set up a replicated slave and run your > reports off that instead of the live system, then: > > 1) it won't bog the live db down > 2) it doesn't really matter how many queries you run > 3) it doesn't really matter how long they take to run > Hmmmmm... This makes sense. :) I indeed have several slaves running. Great. Thank you. Thank you for all your help. > > > -- > Postgresql & php tutorials > http://www.designmagick.com/ > -- Regards, Shelley