Re: fine tuning for logging server - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Florin Andrei
Subject Re: fine tuning for logging server
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Msg-id 1112234574.12159.1.camel@stantz.corp.sgi.com
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In response to fine tuning for logging server  (Florin Andrei <florin@andrei.myip.org>)
Responses Re: fine tuning for logging server
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On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 17:50 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:

> Function: Essentially a logging server. There are two applications (like
> syslog) on the same box that are logging to pgsql, each one to its own
> database. There are a few tables in one DB, and exactly one table in the
> other.
> Most of the time, the apps are just doing mindless INSERTs to the DB.
> Every now and then, an admin performs some SELECTs via a PHP interface.

For performance reasons, i was thinking to keep the tables append-only,
and simply rotate them out every so often (daily?) and delete those
tables that are too old. Is that a good idea?

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Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/


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