Re: Some help on buffers and other performance tricks

On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 21:43:33 -0300
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:

> Frank Wiles wrote:
>
> > Obviously there are systems/datasets/quantities where this won't
> > always work out best, but for the majority of systems out there
> > complicating your schema, maxing your hardware, and THEN tuning
> > is IMHO the wrong approach.
>
> I wasn't suggesting to complicate the schema -- I was actually
> thinking in systems where some queries are not using indexes, some
> queries are plain wrong, etc. Buying a very expensive RAID and then
> noticing that you just needed to create an index, is going to make
> somebody feel at least somewhat stupid.

Sorry I was referring to Ron statement that the first step should
be to "Optimize your schema to be as tight as possible."

But I agree, finding out you need an index after spending $$$ on
extra hardware would be bad. Especially if you have to explain it
to the person forking over the $$$! :)

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