Re: GiST index performance

On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Tom Lane wrote:

> Matthew Wakeling <matthew@flymine.org> writes:
>> Oprofile scares me with the sheer number of options.
>
> You can ignore practically all of them; the defaults are pretty sane.
> The recipe I usually follow is:

An excellent brain dump from Tom and lots of other good stuff in this
thread.  I just dumped a summary of all the profiling lore discussed onto
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Profiling_with_OProfile as I don't know
that I've ever seen a concise intro to this subject before.

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