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List:       pgsql-performance
Subject:    Re: [PERFORM] Less rows -> better performance?
From:       Richard Huxton <dev () archonet ! com>
Date:       2008-07-21 11:06:11
Message-ID: 48846DA3.2090308 () archonet ! com
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Andreas Hartmann wrote:
> Dear PostgreSQL community,
> 
> first some info about our application:
> 
> - Online course directory for a University
> - Amount of data: complete dump is 27 MB
> - Semester is part of primary key in each table
> - Data for approx. 10 semesters stored in the DB
> - Read-only access from web application (JDBC)
> 
> Our client has asked us if the performance of the application could be
> improved by moving the data from previous years to a separate "archive"
> application. 

If you had 27GB of data maybe, but you've only got 27MB - that's 
presumably all sitting in memory.

What in particular is slow?

-- 
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd

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