Re: how can a couple of expensive queries drag my system down?

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:48 PM, p prince <pprince127@gmail.com> wrote:
> is this 'normal'? (loaded question I know)
> Should I be looking to offload expensive reporting queries to read-only
> replicants of my database?

Yes, definitely look into setting up something like a slony slave
that's used for reporting queries.  The nice thing about this setup is
you only need to replicate the tables you run reports against.