Hilary,
> Firstly an apology - I think this should be posted to the performance
> mailing list but can anyone tell me how to subscribe to this please? The
> usual form to fill in is not available on the website. Hopefully others in
> this list will find the answer of use though.
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> Many thanks in advance. Oh, BTW, we are still in the dark ages with v7.0
> but will be upgrading. :-) Hilary
I'd suggest upgrading first before doing any performance tuning. Postgres
performance and tunability has improved worlds since 7.0; it's quite possible
that optimization workarounds you make in 7.0 will actually harm performance
in 7.3 or 7.4.
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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco